Retrograde

By: Peter Cawdron

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

The international team at the Mars Endeavour colony is prepared for every eventuality except one - what happens when disaster strikes Earth?

Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream has become reality. The fledgling colony consists of 120 scientists, astronauts, medical staff, and engineers. Buried deep underground, they're protected from the harsh radiation that sterilizes the surface of the planet. The colony is prepared for every eventuality except one - what happens when disaster strikes Earth?

©2016 Peter Cawdron. Afterword © 2016 by Andrew Rader. A John Joseph Adams Book. Produced by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Excellent but not what I expected

Not what I expected starting out a great listen! I’d love a second book set after this one

Red Mars meets Artemis

Loved this novel as much as Cawdron's first that I discovered (Occupied States of America). Good science behind this very human story. The novel jumps right into the disaster on Earth and how the Martian colonists handle it. Fabulous five stars.

interesting science, silly story

The strength of this book is the depiction of what a Mars colony might looks like. The narrator is good. The story itself, however, is so improbable that it takes away from the reliability of the science. The deeper into the story the book goes the sillier it gets.

The science

This was a very interesting listen. I highly recommend it. I look forward to other stories by the author.

Decent Sci Fi read

A good sci fi read. The twist is interesting. It is not entirely unexpected, & once I figured out where it was going I was excited about it. But it got a bit clunky after that. Overall, I enjoyed it.