Climbing Olympus by Kevin Anderson Paperback Book 9781680572476

ltpgtIn order to terraform Mars Earth first had to transform peopleltpgtltpgtThe Red Planet is a harsh place and normal humans cannot survive there during the many years of taming the planet But a group of humanscalled quotvolunteersquot even though they were taken from prison gulagshave been surgically altered to survive the environmentltpgtltpgtThey are exiles never again able to breathe Earths airltpgtltpgtBut for all their work as they make Mars a place where normal humans can live these altered humans are no longer suited for their own homeltpgtltpgtThey are obsolete peopleltpgtltpgtThey sacrificed their humanity to become the first Martians And they will not stand by as humans come to take their homeltpgt