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Life on Mars - Robert Klose

Life on Mars

By: Robert Klose

Paperback | 11 July 2019

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"[A] dystopian novel too close to today's political world..." -Lea Wait, USA Today Bestselling author

2020 International Book Awards Finalist - Humor

2019 Best Book Awards Finalist - Humor

Life on Mars takes a satirical look at evolution vs. Intelligent Design - a sort of feint by anti-evolutionists to get creationism into the classroom by assiduously avoiding the mention of God. Instead, reference is made to a "higher" or "superior" intelligence. The novel's conceit is this: what if the Intelligent Design folks are right and the evolutionists are wrong?

What if a higher intelligence did indeed get the ball of creation rolling, only the intelligence wasn't God but an alien race ("The Spong") that had seeded earth as a botanical garden eons ago, only to return to find it contaminated with humans?

In preparation for a "Treatment" to correct their error, the Spong assign a human to act as earth's final biographer to provide them with proof of why humans just have to go.

Industry Reviews

2020 American Fiction Awards Finalist - Cross-Genre Fiction

ï»2020 International Book Awards Finalist - Humor

2019 Best Book Awards Finalist - Humor

"In Life on Mars, Klose sheds the cleansing light of comedy on our pitiful times. His earnest band of characters are immensely appealing and, in some cases, literally larger than life." -Monica Wood, author of The One-in-a-Million Boy

"Life on Mars is an intriguing, and even startling, trip of a novel. This story is a heck of a ride." -Gerry Boyle, award-winning author of Straw Man

"Robert Klose has long been a clever and amusing storyteller and in Life on Mars he is at his best." -Sanford Phippen, author of Kitchen Boy

"[A] dystopian novel too close to today's political world..." -Lea Wait, USA Today Bestselling author

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