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The Somatic Bridge: Gripping New Hard Sci-Fi Adventure.
Dr. Isak Corell is a curator of dead things, an archivist of Earth’s lost ecosystems. But when he is exiled to the Pavonis Mons colony on Mars, he finds a world on the brink of asphyxiation. The nitrogen is running out. The terraforming has failed. And Earth, governed by a paralyzed bureaucracy terrified of risk, has cut the supply lines.
With 500 days of air remaining, Isak realizes the machines cannot be fixed. The only solution is to fix the operator.
Partnering with a rogue physicist and a disgraced engineer, Isak initiates "The Somatic Bridge"—a radical retroviral therapy designed to rewrite the human genome. To survive the cold, the radiation, and the thin atmosphere, the colonists must trade their pink skin for grey armor, their lungs for filters, and their individuality for a hive mind known as the Syntony.
But when Earth returns to "rescue" the survivors, they don't find victims. They find a new apex predator. And the Martians have no intention of going back.
With 500 days of air remaining, Isak realizes the machines cannot be fixed. The only solution is to fix the operator.
Partnering with a rogue physicist and a disgraced engineer, Isak initiates "The Somatic Bridge"—a radical retroviral therapy designed to rewrite the human genome. To survive the cold, the radiation, and the thin atmosphere, the colonists must trade their pink skin for grey armor, their lungs for filters, and their individuality for a hive mind known as the Syntony.
But when Earth returns to "rescue" the survivors, they don't find victims. They find a new apex predator. And the Martians have no intention of going back.
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 4, 2025
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April 9, 2026
Earth’s technology has advanced so far that science can solve the carbon problem. The calculations were accurate. But the mutations botched it, thrusting our world into a nanny state.
Isak, the lead, has expertise in biological DNA and may just have the next solution. But, the once bitten, twice shy bureaucrats won’t allow it, resulting in some rebellious actions and a transit to Mars. The environment there becomes untenable, but perhaps a biological mutation could do the trick…?
I won’t spoil it but the world building experience is phenomenal. It would appeal to those who like astronomy, geology, biology, DNA and the marine environment.
I will throw out some teasers to hopefully activate your sense of wonder:
Plankton, carbon, plastics, botched science, mutations of questionable merit, icecaps, hydrothermal vents, hexagonal mystery, a question: will science screw us or save us?
Nerd out.
Isak, the lead, has expertise in biological DNA and may just have the next solution. But, the once bitten, twice shy bureaucrats won’t allow it, resulting in some rebellious actions and a transit to Mars. The environment there becomes untenable, but perhaps a biological mutation could do the trick…?
I won’t spoil it but the world building experience is phenomenal. It would appeal to those who like astronomy, geology, biology, DNA and the marine environment.
I will throw out some teasers to hopefully activate your sense of wonder:
Plankton, carbon, plastics, botched science, mutations of questionable merit, icecaps, hydrothermal vents, hexagonal mystery, a question: will science screw us or save us?
Nerd out.
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