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The Lion of Mars

The Lion of Mars looks past the red dust to reveal how our communities shape us just as much as our environments.

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Review of ‘The Lion of Mars’

In the year 2091, millions of miles away from Earth, 11-year-old Bell and a handful of other kids are growing up on Mars. Sent there as orphaned infants, they have never known another life, another home or another family. Along with several adults, they make up the American settlement, where their days seem rather mundane,…

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