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description: Other stories will take you to Mars. This one will take you inside the boardroom the pub and the bedroom with the people planning the mission.Gurdeep is an engineer and a soldier. Georgies a food scientist. One is pragmatic with a tough outer shell; the other's an optimist a person of ideas and compassion. In the span of a single afternoon the couple find themselves in charge of planning a self-sustaining colony on Mars. Together theyre humanitys last hope for survival.They have 160 slots to fill with experts from all over the world as they set about designing an all-new society with its own government economy and culture  and thats just the tip of the iceberg.Among those chosen for the mission is Devon an autistic scientist with a unique skill set who finds life on Earth strange and alienating. Maybe a whole new planet is exactly what's needed.With 1114 days until the launch excitement and tensions run high. Earths second chance hangs in the balance. Between strict genetic requirements and the dangers of the dystopian almost-present will everyone make it to the final countdown?This is a work of neurodiverse culturally diverse gender-bendy socio-politico-economic drunken-arguments-in-the-pub science fiction  not bang-bang-pew-pew science fiction. Don't say you weren't warned.
language: English
title: Devon's Island
publisher: White Hart Fiction