Miskatonic University Library Association (MULA) Monograph #0305
This monograph explores humankind's future. We have left the Earth, traveling to other planets and the moons of our own solar system. Included here are notes on the Moon and mars colonies, advances in medicine and in the treatment of insanity, discussions of the hazards of space and in the living on other planets, and explorations of discoveries on these other worlds.
Michael LaBossiere is a guy from Maine who went to school in Ohio and ended up a philosophy professor in Florida.
While acquiring his doctorate in philosophy at Ohio State University, he earned his ramen noodle money by writing for GDW, TSR, R. Talsorian Games, and Chaosium. After graduate school, he became a philosophy professor at Florida A&M University. His first philosophy book, What Don't You Know?, was published in 2008. He continues to write philosophy and gaming material. He is also a blogger, but these days who isn't?
When not writing, he enjoys running, gaming and the martial arts. Thanks to a quadriceps tendon tear in 2009, he was out of running for a while, but returned to the trails and wrote a book about it, Of Tendon & Trail.
An interesting and well-thought-out supplement for life on Mars in the Cthulhu Mythos world, after humanity had to flee Earth. Author touches on the history (both known and truthful), the colony setting, new skills, religion, social structure, the Dreamlands... It's thoughtful, usually quite detailed (the mechanics suffer a bit from handwaving in the Dreamlands), and generally worth looking at.
The typos and bad editing really started to get to me, though. I'm not sure if they got worse throughout the book or if I just stopped being able to put up with them. The glitchy spacing actually made it unpleasant to read towards the end.