Impossible to put down…
Kristof expands the mythos of his post-human universe with stark emotional depth and rich character development in this second installment in the Red Dirt series. In the frozen dark of Mars’s southern pole, Miri and the Star Bearer follow the last traces of a vanished world. Survival comes at a cost. When everything falls apart, Miri must rise, not as a follower, but as the one who leads.
Miri remains at the heart of this story. Her journey from a sharp, impulsive engineer to a girl shaped by loss and purpose is raw and utterly believable. Fierce, feral, and oddly graceful, Northwind is not a stereotype of madness but a portrait of someone who’s survived too much for too long. Sutherland’s fall at the hands of the very legacy he tried to erase is grimly poetic. The prose is sharp and the structure tight. This is a visceral, wrenching tale about mortality, identity, and reclamation. Kristof’s vision is mythic, yet intimate. He asks readers not to marvel at machines or stars, but to feel the pulse beneath metal skin and to find humanity in the silence that follows loss. A stunner.
Pub date February 5, 2025
ISBN 979-8309462759
Price $6.99 Paperback, $2.99 Kindle edition
