What happens when humanity finally builds a civilization on another planet, and immediately repeats its old mistakes? That question drives 'The Second World', the sharp, satirical debut from writer ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

Jake Korell’s debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, near-future technology, and the very human absurdities we’ll bring with us when we ...