Desolation Road

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Published 2009 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books

Desolation Road. Copyright © 1988 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.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McDonald, Ian, 1960–

Desolation Road / by Ian McDonald.

p. cm.

Originally published: New York : Bantam Books, 1988.

ISBN 978–1–59102–744–7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Mars (Planet)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.C38D47 2009

823’.914—dc22

2009013382

Printed in the United States on acid-free paper