Twenty years ago, life on Earth was annihilated. Now, the few remaining colonists on Mars scratch out their living in the worn husk of New Houston, a once vibrant settlement. Outside its walls, a perpetual storm rages – acidic snow and rain – the result of a failed attempt to terraform the planet decades earlier. The human race, once numbering in the billions, has dwindled to five hundred or so souls.

David Adler has survived in these circumstances by keeping a low profile and minding his own business. But when he gets a knock on the door from his old flame, Oksana Levi, everything changes.

Mars’ lead engineer and Oksana’s current boyfriend, Carl Epstein, has been brutally murdered in his workshop, and Oksana pleads for Adler’s help. Adler soon finds himself pulling at the threads of a conspiracy by a millenarian cult and its bloodthirsty father figure to do away with life on the red planet once and for all.

Praise:

“Snowfall on Mars was an intoxicating dystopian journey into a failed terraforming effort on Mars. Science fiction readers will devour it with pleasure. But more profoundly, like many post-apocalyptic stories, it’s about people trying to make sense out of a chaotic world. The characters are extremely well drawn – complex- simultaneously sympathetic and not. The real story involves their existential struggle with a bleak circumstance. Frankel has given us characters that exceed our expectations and even provoke us to think. Snowfall on Mars establishes him as an important new voice in the genre. ” – Amazon Reviewer

“I don’t often write reviews. I am compelled when I really don’t like a book but I am honored when the author displays exceptional talent in characterization, writing, and story telling. But its still not good science fiction unless the author also displays exceptional creativity and imagination and a touch of science. This is among the best the field has to offer.” – Amazon Reviewer

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