Work

Outpost Mars

C. M. Kornbluth & Judith Merril · 1952novel

Genre
- science fiction
Theme
- space colonization
- terraforming
Place
- mars
Tone
- adventurous
Audience
- adult

Also present

Tonetense

The colonists of the Martian village Sun Lake City are accused of stealing a hundred kilograms of the hallucinogenic drug Marcaine. To be punished, the village shall be closed. When searching for the true perpetrators two of the colonists find a hidden people of Martians who stem from earlier human settlers. They do need the drug for their own purpose, and not only took the Marcaine.

Source · ISFDB CC BY 4.0

Placement

contained in Martian Super Packanthology
contained in Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrowomnibus