Red Planet Blues

About this book

Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula awardnominated novella Identity Theft The names LomaxAlex Lomax. Im the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny OReilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth where anything can be synthesized the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. Im trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors the corrupt cops and a growing population of transferslucky stiffs who after striking paleontological gold upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and OReilly along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils God only knows what Ill dig up...