Red Planet Blues

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This book is an original publication of The Berkley Publishing Group.

The first ten chapters were originally published in a slightly different version as the novella “Identity Theft” in Down These Dark Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick, published by Science Fiction Book Club, 2005.

Copyright © 2013 by Robert J. Sawyer.

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eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-62221-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sawyer, Robert J.

Red planet blues / Robert J. Sawyer. — First edition.

pages cm

“Incorporating the Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated novella ‘Identity Theft.’”

ISBN 978-0-425-25682-4 (hardback)

1. Private investigators—Fiction. 2. Fossils—Fiction. I. Title.

PR9199.3.S2533R43 2013

813'.54—dc23

2012049586

FIRST EDITION: April 2013

Cover art by Tony Mauro.

Cover design by Rita Frangie.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.