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Detonation Event - Book Tour and Giveaway

2/5/2019

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Detonation Event
Mars Wars #1
by John Andrew Karr
Genre: Science Fiction
Pub Date: 2/5/19

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For decades the Space Consortium of America has searched for new ways to harvest resources beyond an increasingly depleted Earth. The ultimate plan is about to be ignited. So is the ultimate threat to humankind. . .

Detonation Event

Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiting Station-1 are part of a bold plan: resurrect the once-active molten cores of the Red Planet with synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the hell out of that iron-oxide rock for future generations. It’ll change history. So will the strands of carbon-based Martian cells that have hitched a ride on the ship.

Dr. Karen Wagner knows the microbes’ resistance to virus is incredible. It’s the unknowable that’s dicey. Her orders: blow them into space. But orders can be undermined. Two vials have been stolen and sent hurtling toward the biosphere. For Devans and Wagner, ferreting out the saboteurs on board is only the beginning. Because there are more of them back on Earth—an army of radical eco-terrorists anxious to create a New World Order with a catastrophic gift from Mars.

Now, one-hundred-and-forty-million miles away from home, Devans is feeling expendable, betrayed, a little adrift, and a lot wild-eyed. But space madness could be his salvation—and Earth’s. He has a plan. And he’ll have to be crazy to make it work.

“Detonation Event starts with the unusual proposition that the greatest difficulty in terraforming Mars will be not geophysics but Earth politics--rising quickly to open warfare. Interesting and intelligent.” --Dave Drake Author of Hammer's Slammers

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​Prologue


2228 AD

The abyss and its twin gape at the Martian sky as if aware of the pain to come.
One in daylight, the other night, they disrupt a global desert. The tunnels thrust to the very heart of the planet, as if the God of War had twice speared his namesake and wrought its demise. Mars was never a kind deity, and while he is no longer capable of violence, his blood-colored world remains just as hostile to life.
Here the sun rises and sets without mortality to mark the passage of time. The thin air constricts no lungs. The cold bites neither flesh nor frond. Beds of ancient waterways gather dust, indistinguishable from surrounding barrens. Volcanoes stand as slowly withering ghosts. The underground reservoirs that once supplied them with magma cooled to rock millennia ago. Deeper still, the once-molten outer core endured the same fate, entombing the mass of solid iron, nickel, and sulfur that had been its heat source: the radioactive inner core. Both are cold now, and there is no geologic activity throughout the entire planet.
Mars orbits the sun—half again beyond Earth’s orbit—as a rocky corpse.
But perhaps not eternally doomed.
The tunnels are the first phase of a mission where the odds are seemingly light years long and without historical precedent. Even if the mission is initially successful, the duration is unknown. Something killed Mars before and can do it again. But a chance at life has arrived where there was none. An opportunity to restore the vibrancy of the planet’s youth, now only hinted at with subterranean ice and mysterious impressions upon the withered husk of the surface.
In its first billion years, the red planet may not have appeared red at all, but purple or even blue like Earth, depending on the ratio of breathable air to iron oxide particles spewed from volcanoes and lifted by wind from mountains and deserts. Surface water existed in the form of streams and lakes and perhaps even seas. Clouds of water vapor circled the globe. Lightning flashed and thunder boomed.
Rain fell on Mars.
And it was no coincidence that the planetary cores were active and “alive.”
Radioactive heat loss and convective currents of magma produced a magnetic field that bound the atmosphere to the planet in a geologic dynamo, the like of which still functions on Earth.
What killed Mars?
Perhaps its smaller size limited the amount of radioactive supply, and it simply ran out of energy. Or massive impact with an asteroid ejected the charged particles out to space. Whatever the case, death arrived soon after the Martian inner core went cold. Having lost its heat source, the molten outer core turned to stone as if succumbing to the Hydra’s gaze. The dynamo failed and its magnetism all but vanished. Gravity alone was too weak to hold the atmosphere. Air and water molecules escaped into space. Without a magnetic shield and atmosphere to deflect them, solar winds and radiation further stripped the surface dry.
Mars lost the means to support life beyond a microbial level.
Now temperature fluctuations spawn the only weather events. Night and polar regions regularly plunge two hundred degrees below zero Fahrenheit; cold enough to freeze its most abundant gas—carbon dioxide—into dry ice, though at times the equator at full sun can reach as high as sixty degrees. Far less drastic temperature swings combine with the weak gravity in a near vacuum to spawn frequent dust storms. The greater the temperature difference, the larger the storm.
Dust, prevalent everywhere, is lifted rather than scoured from the surface. Storms of it can be monstrous, at times engulfing the entire planet except for the gargantuan Olympus Mons. Far more common are the dust devils that waltz through a desolate Hell.
Some of the rust-hued particles fall into the open maws and down the tunnels.
No twists or turns arrest their journey. They gain no purchase along laser-bonded walls. Down they drift like mineral snowfall, passing signal relays at every mile. The dust falls for weeks toward the core. Recent inductees will never reach bottom before Detonation Event.
Electronic relays form a spiral pattern and flash in sequence for two thousand miles, down and back again, each briefly illuminating a section of tunnel along the way. Constantly monitored by satellites positioned above, the relays are members of a large supporting cast.
The lead roles belong to the hydrogen (thermonuclear) megabombs residing at the base of the each tunnel. These are cutting-edge nuclear fusion explosives; the latest in the class of Asteroid Busters.
Ever silent, Mars awaits its chance at resurrection.


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John Andrew Karr writes of the strange and spectacular. He enjoys creating fantasy, paranormal, horror, and science fiction, having self-published novels in all these genres. He’s a North Carolina resident, IT worker, and all-around family guy.

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39 Comments
James Robert
2/5/2019 04:25:35 am

Thank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read.

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Janet W.
2/5/2019 08:33:28 am

What a great, fitting, cover!! Sounds like an interesting read!

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Victoria
2/5/2019 11:32:00 am

Thanks for sharing :)

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Calvin
2/5/2019 12:19:31 pm

Been a while since I saw a book with a mars theme ! WWEET

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Rita Wray
2/5/2019 12:21:13 pm

I liked the excerpt.

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Sherry
2/5/2019 12:22:42 pm

This sounds like a very interesting book.

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wendy hutton
2/5/2019 02:11:32 pm

very nice cover, good luck with the tour

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Ellie Wright
2/5/2019 02:26:17 pm

This sounds like a great book. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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Debbie P
2/5/2019 02:50:47 pm

This book sounds like an interesting read. Cool cover.

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heather
2/5/2019 03:30:30 pm

I love the excerpt of this one and I like the cover too.

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John Andrew Karr link
2/5/2019 07:57:24 pm

Thanks everyone. I hope you find it entertaining!

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Mary Cloud
2/5/2019 09:03:14 pm

No questions - I like the cover

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Dale Wilken
2/5/2019 11:19:13 pm

Sounds really great.

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Kelly Nicholson
2/6/2019 09:57:40 am

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i like the spaceman cover,,,looks cool

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Heather D
2/6/2019 10:37:59 am

I also like the spaceman cover. The plot sounds good too.

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Chelle
2/6/2019 01:28:41 pm

That's the author in the cover, right?

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John Andrew Karr link
2/6/2019 02:36:00 pm

Hey Everyone, appreciate the cool comments. Kensington crushed the cover art, for sure!

Not me in that helmet, btw. Ry Devans has a far more steely gaze!

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Jessie Redding
2/6/2019 07:10:59 pm

I especially love the shine on this cover!!

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lynn clayton
2/6/2019 07:38:11 pm

LOVE THE COVER LOOKS LIKE A GREAT READ

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Grace Henley
2/7/2019 06:25:11 pm

Love The Book Cover, Looks Like it will be a good read.

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Paula
2/7/2019 07:16:50 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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Amy F
2/7/2019 08:08:47 pm

Love the cover and the book sounds interesting!

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Bea LaRocca
2/8/2019 06:04:19 am

Congratulations on your new book release. I love the cover, synopsis and excerpt! This is a must read for me.

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John Andrew Karr link
2/8/2019 07:51:40 am

Thanks very much, all. Welcome feedback!

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Marcy Meyer
2/8/2019 07:24:48 pm

Great cover! So interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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Jemima Pett link
2/10/2019 05:36:41 pm

This sounds fascinating. I love the way you've really thought about the geology and history of Mars.

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June S.
2/12/2019 03:14:26 pm

This sounds like a great read, good luck on your tour.

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Kathy Cozzarelli
2/12/2019 11:00:46 pm

I like the cover.

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Denise Higgins
2/16/2019 04:59:29 am

Love the cover

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John Andrew Karr link
2/16/2019 08:32:31 am

Thanks all!

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Lori Pierce
2/18/2019 02:03:05 pm

Thank you for the giveaway.

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Lavender P.
2/19/2019 08:26:04 am

Sometimes I just want off of this planet... but not really. I would rather humans be gone. Selfishness and cruelty are in our nature. I'm not surprised about the saboteurs.

I wish our world leaders were more responsible in respecting what mother nature gave to us. We wouldn't be hearing all this talk about Mars being the next planet to populate. That's when I wish they would all be swallowed into a volcanic eruption. Sorry about the rant. :P

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John Andrew Karr link
2/19/2019 09:21:00 am

Thanks for your insights. We should take care of the mother planet, certainly. But at the very least we are still left vulnerable by limiting ourselves to one planet. We are capable of doing both home care and space outreach.

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Kelly D
2/19/2019 12:08:30 pm

I like the cover, it stands out.

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Daniel M
2/28/2019 08:16:23 pm

like the cover

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Barbara Montag
3/2/2019 09:08:46 pm

This sure sounds like an interesting book with an eye catching cover.
thank you

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Emily C.
3/4/2019 07:16:03 pm

I love the cover, I love the reflection in his helmet - very desolate looking!

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Renee Collins
3/4/2019 08:45:42 pm

Scary, but all too possible. My husband and I will both be reading this!

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Jerry Marquardt
3/5/2019 11:44:33 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Detonation Event, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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