"Three explorers are sent to Mars to search for signs of a long-lost alien race. Instead, however, they stumble onto a vicious wealthy man who runs an illegal drug ring. He has decided that they are a threat, so he uses the officials he corrupted in the government of Mars to hunt down and try to assassinate these explorers, using everything from androids built to look like their most trusted friends to nuclear weapons. The explorers must elude this criminal and rescue their captured friend while battling the entire corrupted government of Mars; they must somehow overturn this corrupt government and survive long enough to reveal the truth about the enemy they are fighting (often hand-to-hand). Along the way they encounter aliens who give them assistance, and other robotic aliens that try to kill them."
Jonathan Cooper, Resident Michael D. Cooper Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 30% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- unraveling a conspiracy
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- explorer
Age:
- a teen
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
Terrain
- Desert
- Planet surface, need spacesuit
- Domed/Underground City
Which planet?
- Mars
Not Earth, in Solar System?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
