Red Planet Blues

By: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award-nominated novella Identity Theft

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

I'm trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers-lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O'Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I'll dig up . . .

©2013 Robert J. Sawyer (P)2024 Tantor

fun and well written

mars based detective story with well thought out future science. a fun, interesting read.

Bogart!

If you love “noir” detective mysteries and light science fiction, this one is excellent. The narrator even reads the whole thing in a passable Humphrey Bogart impression. Not my “cup of tea”, but if it is yours, you’ll probably really enjoy this one. Give it a read.

A Clever and Thrilling Gumshoe Tale

I liked fast pace storyline. I like the twists in the story. A good fast read.