Another Girl, Another Planet

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It's been quite a hectic year, but I want to take you back a bit and show you a novel by the recently passed Lou Antonelli. It was, in fact, his only novel, being that he was mainly a writer of short fiction first.

This futuristic tale came out almost 5 years ago in 2017, and isn't quite the sort of thing you see a whole lot today.

The description:

"Dave Shuster has been confronted by secret government agents over a photo taken by a Mars lander of a graveyard complete with crosses on Mars. Shuster claims that – in an alternate timeline – he was a low-level bureaucrat in the administration of a joint U.S. – Soviet Mars colony when he was caught up in a murder mystery involving the illegal use of robot technology. 

In that timeline, the Cold War took a very different turn – largely influenced by Admiral Robert Heinlein, who was allowed to return to Naval service following World War II. 

When Shuster is thrown into a power vacuum immediately upon his arrival on the Mars Colony in 1985, he finds himself fighting a rogue industrialist using his wits with some help from unlikely sources in a society infiltrated by the pervasive presence of realistic androids."

Once again, you can find Another Girl, Another Planet here.

I don't know for certain but I wouldn't be surprised if the title was a reference to the old underground rock classic of the same title by The Only Ones. It's a bit obscure unless you were around at the time or are really into the genre. But it is a good one.

You can listen to the track here on the band's official channel:

And that is all for this week. Have a good Saturday and Sunday, rest up, and I'll see you next week. 2021 is almost done, but we've still got a couple of months left to go.

It's not quite over yet, so let us make the most of what we have left.

What else can we do?

Check out this action horror adventure today!