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It’s 2056. A fledgling Mars colony has begun to self-destruct. Can a final crew of ten bring a needed intervention?

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July 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“For me, sci-fi is a way of grappling with our current problems on Earth by projecting them across space and time. Getting that distance sometimes helps us see and face things we couldn’t face otherwise.”

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July 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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“For me, Mars represents a sterile environment, like a laboratory, that helps us see more clearly who we are and what we might become.” — Brian D. McLaren

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July 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The protagonist of this trilogy isn’t an individual. It’s a team of people... Or you might say the protagonist is a set of human values or qualities that this team embodies.”

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July 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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When two billionaire philanthropists team up to establish a long-term colony on Mars, will their project mark a new beginning for the human species, or will they export human arrogance and folly?

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July 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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“For me, sci-fi is a way of grappling with our current problems on Earth by projecting them across space and time. Getting that distance sometimes helps us see and face things we couldn’t face otherwise.”

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July 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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It’s 2056. A fledgling Mars colony has begun to self-destruct. Can a final crew of ten bring a needed intervention?

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July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Imagine you’re the director of a Mars colonization project, and you discover the colony’s leaders have been keeping a terrible secret from you. What do you do?

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July 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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“... If we ruin the Earth, we can always retreat to Mars, they seem to think. I wanted to confront that delusion as directly as I could in this trilogy.” — Brian D. McLaren

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July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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From THE LAST VOYAGE, Brian McLaren’s new sci-fi novel:
“Forever this would be true: that her final conversation with her mother was a lie.”

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July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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When two billionaire philanthropists team up to establish a long-term colony on Mars, will their project mark a new beginning for the human species, or will they export human arrogance and folly?

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July 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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It's 2056 and international oligarchs have pushed the world to the precipice of ecological, economic, and nuclear catastrophe. Two billionaire philanthropists have teamed up to offer a solution. Will it be a way through our polycrisis—or another dead end?

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July 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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"Beautifully written, wonderfully paced." -Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PHD, poet and award-winning translator

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July 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Why science fiction? “This genre has helped me engage with the themes I have grappled with through my whole career … not just theoretically or abstractly, but in a concrete story with characters I have grown to love.” — Brian McLaren, on THE LAST VOYAGE

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July 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A feisty Nigerian fighter pilot turned astronaut … a street-smart vet turned plant pathologist from LA … an Afghan entomologist who was drawn to science through her fascination with dragonflies and butterflies — 3 main characters of THE LAST VOYAGE

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June 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A billionaire philanthropist who poses as an oligarch… the Ukrainian widow of a Russian oligarch who despises the code the super-rich and super-powerful live by — 2 main characters of THE LAST VOYAGE

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June 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A Guatemalan geneticist who tells corny jokes … an aging ecologist who knows he is an arrogant narcissist but can’t seem to do anything about it … a Maori former rock star turned music/art therapist — 3 main characters of THE LAST VOYAGE

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June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A young American theologian-ethicist who has been recruited for a challenge she feels is too big for her … a teenage musician-poet from Palestine who has survived too much already in her young life — 2 main characters of THE LAST VOYAGE

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June 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The protagonist of this trilogy isn’t an individual. It’s a team of people, diverse, troubled, conflicted at times, but ultimately good, resilient, and wise. Or you might say the protagonist is a set of human values...”

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June 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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“For me, Mars represents a sterile environment, like a laboratory, that helps us see more clearly who we are and what we might become.” — Brian D. McLaren

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June 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Humans (most recently, Earth’s richest person) have always projected their hopes and fears on Mars... I wanted to confront that delusion as directly as I could in this trilogy.

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June 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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LIFE AFTER DOOM won a Nautilus Book Award! Info here - brianmclaren.net/a-nau…
June 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Excerpt from THE LAST VOYAGE:
“...For the first time in her twenty-seven years of life, Gabriela had lied to her mother. Forever this would be true: that her final conversation with her mother was a lie.”

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June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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For me, sci-fi is a way of grappling with our current problems on Earth by projecting them across space and time. Getting that distance sometimes helps us see and face things we couldn’t face otherwise.

Pre-order my new sci-fi novel, The Last Voyage: linktr.ee/LastVoyage
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s 2056 and the earth teeters on the brink of collapse. A new colony on Mars could be the answer, but does this fledgling community have everything it needs to survive?
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June 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM