The Book
Everyone on Mars by Larry Buttrose will be published by Puncher & Wattmann on 1 August 2024. This collection of 12 short stories is an imagining of the impact — psychological, interpersonal, existential — of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable Mars, if with a nascent love of its cold, harsh beauty, as humanity truly becomes a bi-planetary species.
This Week on Mars
Keeping readers up to date with news of the red planet—and my book.
Join me for occasional email dispatches about my book, reviews and events, and the latest news about work towards the colonization of Mars.
News & views of the red planet
Red Planet Blue Planet
“NASA scientrst have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean and that the red planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space.”
Everyone on Mars by Larry Buttrose, Launch Party Sydney 31 July 2024
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Speech by author and urban activist Elizabeth Farrelly launching Everyone on Mars by Larry Buttrose in Sydney, 31 July 2024
“Larry is part Ovid, part Cassandra; Raymond Carver meets Murakami meets David Suzuki.
It’s a vivid and touching book. Buy it. Read it. You’ll love it.”