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Earth has suffered a massive climate disaster that submerges most of Florida, rips the United States into several mini-nations, and sends a band of freethinking scientists and entrepreneurs to found a colony (and a really great restaurant) on Mars. Many years later, two of these early colonists have a grandchild whose aspirations are a little more pedestrian than "save the world" or "found a new planetary outpost." She's the star of John Varley's latest novel Rolling Thunder, and she just wants to be an MP3 pop star, the most downloaded girl on the net. The third novel in Varley's latest series, the book focuses on a a girl named Podkayne, who at the age of eighteen joins the Martian Navy's Music, Arts and Drama Division. But just as her music is hitting big, her career is interrupted by several giant mountains on Galilean moon Europa coming to life and zooming into the central solar system. More »
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