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What a premise in this book. Girlfriend on Mars is about a reality game show where the two winners will go along on a one-way trip to Mars, essentially setting up the first human settlement there.

This is not a science book. It’s really about the main characters: Amber, who’s been accepted as a contestant on the show (she’s quite brilliant in horticulture), and her loser boyfriend Kevin (a pot dealer who lives in terror that she will actually be chosen for the trip to Mars).

The winners will be a man and a woman (for obvious reasons), which leads…

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The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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