Asher Radescu was the last human to come to Mars, but he didn’t find the romance and adventure he craved. Instead, he lives in a truck delivering supplies to frontier habs and secretly builds neural clones to keep civilization from collapsing. When an android bounty hunter discovers that Asher is one of the people responsible for the dangerous cloning technology, the entire population of Mars is threatened with annihilation. With the help of underground cloners, resurrected colonists, android defectors, and one gorgeous racing celebrity, Asher must end the first war on Mars before the violence consumes them all.

“It’s a brilliant book, a compelling story, well-told… He had me at Mars.”

–MarianAllen.com

“Asher Radescu was the last man to emigrate to Mars. On this harsh world, he has lost virtually everything that held meaning for him at the hands of rebellious, sentient robots or “mechs”… The reader is challenged to consider what defines humanity and life in a world where machines and clones have the memories and skills, but not the personalities, of their donors or creators. Even the humans of the future have an increasing measure of synthetic replacement parts. If we have synthetic knees, hips, heart valves, and cloned skin and organs today, is it so far off that the fraction of original parts will decline markedly? The author’s glimpse into the future, the ambiguities we are shown about life and humanity, and the riveting action make Heirs of Mars a compelling and exciting read.”
–Thomas Carroll