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Mars Girl
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Mars Girl

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The scenario of "Mars Girl" evolves between thriller and SF. The New Yorker profiler Kelly takes part in an investigation into the disappearance of ten serial killers. They were kidnapped from their penitentiary during a raid commando. At the same time, still in the United States, murders are committed against scientists of the research center "Living on Mars". The latter works in a rather secret project, parallel to the one of the NASA...When I wrote "Mars Girl" in 2004 and published it on the Internet in 2005, I wanted to give a tribute to the modern popular culture through a short novel the style of which would be as young and direct as possible: very close to the action, putting the dialogs forward with informal conversations, a willingly fantasy-based approach to the characters and their environment, in order to create the literary equivalent of a video game, series or a pop-corn movie.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lulu.com
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 September 2012
Pages
224
ISBN
9781300169123

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

The scenario of "Mars Girl" evolves between thriller and SF. The New Yorker profiler Kelly takes part in an investigation into the disappearance of ten serial killers. They were kidnapped from their penitentiary during a raid commando. At the same time, still in the United States, murders are committed against scientists of the research center "Living on Mars". The latter works in a rather secret project, parallel to the one of the NASA...When I wrote "Mars Girl" in 2004 and published it on the Internet in 2005, I wanted to give a tribute to the modern popular culture through a short novel the style of which would be as young and direct as possible: very close to the action, putting the dialogs forward with informal conversations, a willingly fantasy-based approach to the characters and their environment, in order to create the literary equivalent of a video game, series or a pop-corn movie.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lulu.com
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 September 2012
Pages
224
ISBN
9781300169123