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Escape
What if salvation meant abandoning everything you’ve ever known?
President Alysia McCormick has seen the classified Planet 9 is real—and it’s coming. While the public remains in the dark, a covert mission unfolds behind the scenes. Led by the enigmatic and powerful Joshua Vinz, a massive vessel known as the Arc of Exodus is being prepared in secret. Its to transport fifteen thousand carefully selected people to Mars before Earth is destroyed.
Scientists, doctors, artists, and children—chosen not just for their skills, but their genetic potential—are given one final chance. But when the rockets rise, humanity’s true battle begins.
On the red planet, Joshua’s vision of a perfect society quickly becomes a struggle over power, freedom, and the right to self-determination. As Alysia begins to challenge the future he’s trying to build, an even deeper mystery signs that Mars was visited long before they arrived. Ancient warnings lie buried in stone and silence—waiting for someone to trigger a response.
Not a message to Earth.
But to something far beyond it.
Escape is a gripping science fiction epic about survival, sacrifice, and what comes after the end of the world—when the real story begins.
President Alysia McCormick has seen the classified Planet 9 is real—and it’s coming. While the public remains in the dark, a covert mission unfolds behind the scenes. Led by the enigmatic and powerful Joshua Vinz, a massive vessel known as the Arc of Exodus is being prepared in secret. Its to transport fifteen thousand carefully selected people to Mars before Earth is destroyed.
Scientists, doctors, artists, and children—chosen not just for their skills, but their genetic potential—are given one final chance. But when the rockets rise, humanity’s true battle begins.
On the red planet, Joshua’s vision of a perfect society quickly becomes a struggle over power, freedom, and the right to self-determination. As Alysia begins to challenge the future he’s trying to build, an even deeper mystery signs that Mars was visited long before they arrived. Ancient warnings lie buried in stone and silence—waiting for someone to trigger a response.
Not a message to Earth.
But to something far beyond it.
Escape is a gripping science fiction epic about survival, sacrifice, and what comes after the end of the world—when the real story begins.
134 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 27, 2025
About the author
Larry Patten
15 books3 followersLarry Patten is a writer and retired pastor, currently working in grief support for a hospice in lovely Fresno, California. He publishes hospice-matters.com, about dying, death, and grief. He also posts weekly reverent (and sometimes irreverent) musings about the Holy and human relationship at larrypatten.com. Patten has served churches, been a hospice chaplain, and worked as a campus minister. He enjoys backpacking, biking, reading, playing with his dog, serving the cats, wine tasting, cooking and playing cribbage with his wife.
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