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Generation Mars
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Generation Mars is a series of children’s books that follows the first generation of space-faring kids. It's hard science fiction scaled for kids.

https://generationmars.space/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P5P3986
I was listening to I’ll Take You There, by the Staple Singers, and I had a vision of kids floating in zero gravity, laughing and bouncing around.

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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Maybe my use of Sly and the Family Stone’s I Want To Take You Higher was a bit on the nose for a launch song.

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December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Kids love trains. There are no trains on Mars, but kids there love them all the more for this. Cas and Ori, the sisters in my books, are past this stage of childhood, but they remember.

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December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Do you get frisson? More specifically, do some pieces of music make the hair on your neck stand up?

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December 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My oldest also likes Radiohead, though she would probably think Creep is basic.

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December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My oldest went through a Riot Grrrl phase. That phrasing sounds dismissive. I don’t mean it that way at all.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Thanks, Gabino!

My latest book, Food: Generation Mars, Book Four, came out December 1st. It's ostensibly Middle Grade/YA. But I dunno man, I think it's an epic for all ages.

www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
December 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Excerpt:
“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...

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December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Do you remember the first time we see the Discovery One in 2001? It eases slowly onto the screen, as a melancholy orchestral piece plays (Adagio from Gayane, by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian).

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December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“Music filled the Country Roads. It was what used to be called surf music, with echo-y jangling guitars and voices in harmony singing about cars and waves.”
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Many years ago, I went to Bolivia to help a friend with some field research. We stayed on a remote ranch in the Gran Chaco, an arid grassland in the southern part of the country.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There's still one more day to grab these free ebooks. Check 'em out!

lyndiallison.com/freereads
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.

Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.

When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...

#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Thanks, Gabino!

Book Four of my Generation Mars series comes out Monday (Kindle version currently available for preorder). To celebrate, I'm making the third book available for free on Kindle through Monday.

a.co/d/ahDT8bV
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Free on Kindle!

Four authors, five books!

Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025

Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.

lyndiallison.com/freereads

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November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Holy smokes, guys! This thing comes out in a week! 😬
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆

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November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thanks, Gabino, for the #FridayReads thread!

I just revealed the cover and release date of my next book:
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Cover reveal and release date announcement for the next Generation Mars book!

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November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is it: the final chapter of Part One and the final installment of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four. Parents doing all they can for their kids. All. They. Can.

douglasdmeredith.substack.com/p/chapter-17

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September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thanks, Gabino! The last chapter of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four comes out tomorrow. Here's a link to the Table of Contents.

douglasdmeredith.substack.com/p/table-of-c...
September 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The exciting final chapter of Part One, and the conclusion of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four, comes out Saturday, 9/27.

douglasdmeredith.substack.com/p/table-of-c...

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September 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
QTP with an album you'd rate a perfect 10/10 🎶
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Chapter 8 of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four is up. I think something bad is about to happen in the commissary.

douglasdmeredith.substack.com/p/chapter-8

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August 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM