This is the brand-new website for Odessa Moon, creator of “The Steppes of Mars” series. My first book, “The Bride of Dairapaska,” was recently published through Peschel Press, so I hope you’ll check it either, whether through the trade paperback, the Kindle, or through Kindle Unlimited.
I hope you check it out. We’ve put up a page describing Debbie Miller’s story and an excerpt from the first chapter.
I want to warn you: “Bride” is an unusual story for science-fiction. It takes place on a colonized Mars several hundred years in the future, but there’s not a lot of high-tech. There’s trains, but no planes or automobiles. Contact with Olde Earth was lost awhile back, so the Martians are on their own, trying to keep the terraforming process going and feeding and clothing themselves.
The passage of time has also allowed for several distinct cultures to grow, with their unique beliefs, attitudes, prejudices, and, well, a lot like us, really.
Except for their green skin. There’s a reason for that, too.
Debbie’s story would be familiar to most women on Olde Earth. She is a peasant, and I mean that honestly. She grew up living the rural life. She’s not action-girl seen in a lot of science-fiction movies and novels these days. She sees the world through a peasant’s eyes. She lives close to the land. She has been taught her duties and she tries to fulfill them to the best of her abilities.
And yet, when she had enough, she does something dangerous that ends up changing her world, and the lives of those close to her.
So check out the book page for “The Bride of Dairapaska”. Read the first chapter. If you want to know more, head to Amazon and buy the trade paperback or ebook, or check it out of Kindle Unlimited.
And let us know what you think, either through the Contact Page here, or by leaving a review. We really want to know. Thanks.
