Ares Express

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Published 2010 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books

Ares Express. Copyright © 2010 by Ian McDonald. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Cover illustration © Stephan Martiniere

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McDonald, Ian, 1960–

Ares Express / by Ian McDonald.

p. cm.

Originally published: London : Earthlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., a Viacom Company, 2001.

ISBN 978–1–61614–197–4 (pbk.)

ISBN 978–1–61614–345–9 (ebook)

1. Mars (Planet)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.C38A89 2010

823’.914—dc22

2009050115

Printed in the United States