Red Tide: Life On the Martian Frontier

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On a windswept sand dune in Kitty Hawk North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright created a new world in 1903 when they made their historic first airplane flight. It had taken a train and a steamship to transport their flier from Dayton Ohio to Kitty Hawk. No one ever imagined how much their world would change after the invention of a machine that would enable human flight. No one imagined the new world when, just a mere sixty-six years later in 1969, man would take human flight to its logical destiny and step onto the surface of the Moon. Had someone predicted that future in 1903, one can almost see the headlines ready to proclaim it wasn't possible as people laughed the person making such an outlandish prediction out of town on a steam locomotive no doubt.

Sixty-six years is not a long time, yet the world went from Orville and Wilbur and their wooden flier to Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Excursion Module. And now it has been over fifty years since Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon. Since then, humans have not taken a sabbatical from space exploration or from their pursuit of technologic innovation. Microelectronics, personal computers, cell phones, GPS systems technology has had major breakthroughs. In those same fifty years the international space station taught us about extended life in space while projects like the Jet Propulsion Labs Mars Rovers have increased our knowledge of that planet and taught us about landing spacecraft on Mars. The human thirst for knowledge will never allow us to stop seeking new frontiers to gain new knowledge. It's in our DNA. Humans seek knowledge for knowledge sake and when we are at our best, we adapt and apply what we learn to improve our lives. Today, man is poised to take the next steps by colonizing the Moon and Mars. Can you imagine that world

"Red Tide - Life on The Martian Frontier" tells the story of Myah, a 27-year-old marine biologist, working on a grant from NASA to identify new marine life forms on the Great Barrier Reef. She is suddenly recalled to Florida to meet with her grant sponsor who turns out to be the newly elected governor of Mars Colony 1, a mining colony with 5000 residents.

Her life makes a radical change when it becomes clear her sponsor wants to send a marine biologist to look for past life on Mars. He shows Myah a sediment rock extracted from a bore sample on Mars. Red Tide follows Myah's journey, beginning on a cruise ship that takes her to Armstrong City on the Moon and then continues with a five-month journey on a transport headed to the colony on Mars. Myah believes the sediment rock is evidence that proves Mars once had a vast surface ocean that disappeared following a radical climate change event. The sediment rock offers a clue that points to past life on the planet.
Myah joins an expedition as part of a team following that clue into the Martian frontier where they survive the hostile atmosphere and destructive Martian winds to discover a hidden secret about the planet. This book gives the reader a real picture of what life will be like at the end of the 21st Century.

Red Tide looks at life 66 years from now, in a time when the commercialism of the Moon has turned it into a magnet for space tourism and where there are 5,000 colonists already living on Mars. It is a time when pandemics and climate change are driving man to live on alien worlds. Red Tide by Jim Grebey will challenge your imagination... and help you picture what life will be like at the end of this century. A world your grandchildren may well live in.

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Jim Grebey lives on the Space Coast of Florida and grew up in the days of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He remembers what it was like to sit on the gymnasium floor as a child watching in awe as people like Allen Shepard and John Glenn blasted off from Cape Canaveral before it was named as the Kennedy Space Center. These were days when Astronauts were heroes whose name were on every kid's mind.
Its no mistake of fortune that brought Jim Grebey to live on the Space Coast of Florida as an adult. He was present to watch numerous Space Shuttle launches and watch the launch of the Falcon 9 heavy rocket as it returned Americans to the space station. Watching those launches from his backyard is as exciting today as it was as a child.
Today the names of the Mercury astronauts have been replaced with new heroes. Names like Elon Musk who is redefining the direction of space exploration. Jim Grebey has always been a storyteller with a vivid imagination. In Red Tide he turns his imagination and love for all things space loose. In Red Tide he presents a vision of the future. Now, let Red Tide challenge your imagination. Join Jim Grebey and let your vision of the future run wild.