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Mars Needed Women

Below is a slightly revised and updated version of the jacket blurb for this novel. It was published daily in March 2024 as part of a #Writever challenge, and I completed all 31 chapters using all 31 Women's Rights prompts, managing to complete the last chapter and post it only 20 minutes into April 1st.

The story was definitely beta, with a plot hole and janky science and a few character boo-boos, but I like the result. I have since greatly revised the story and added plenty of material. Writing content daily to fit it into a toot-length that worked out to 750-800 words max forced compromises.

I plan to publish the novel in book form. As such, I have deleted the original free-to-read version. When I've sold or published the novel, I'll be sure to inform all my followers.

If you were part way through the story, PM me.

For you that read it, and for those who favorited chapters, Thank you.

In order not to 404 dozens and dozens of links, the version below is slightly updated and retained as a placeholder.

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(Blurb)

May Ri bought into the hype and the spiel, not realizing it was the last gasp of a long dead oligarch's dream. When the money dried up, nobody would finance the supply missions. Who cared about the ten thousand up there when you could outrage the millions down here with something less expensive? Earthers returned to their petty games of slavery—that wasn't called as such—and empire that ate nations.

On Mars, colonists were pushed to their limits: The asteroid mining missions, the expanding the domes and monorail-lines, the spinlaunchers and Deimosbase, the raising the first and second generation martians. Men died disproportionately. In the end, a few strongmen attempted to corner the growing "female resource" to their benefit and to the benefit their sons, working to crush the whisper of the half-forgotten promise of democracy that had followed May Ri to the planet of war.

She and her nisei daughters led the way, fighting. Together with "sisters" and with "aunts," the women redefined which gender would be considered a "resource."

They found that the blood of the ever-absent fathers spilled on the rusty regolith of Mother Mars blended in nicely.

Earthers were outraged. #RSMarsNeededWomen 01

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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