MÍTOSZ: a hard science fiction series set on Mars

MÍTOSZ is a series of novels about humanity starting over on Mars, and what is left of it when Earth stops answering. Above is the gate to the world: step into the first story, and Luna, a twin robot, will guide you across the map of the planet. Below is a short guide to what is waiting for you.

ICARUS, Book 1 of the series

In Mars Year 73, four settlements live in isolation: the Russian Vostok, the Chinese TianYuan, the American corporate Minos and the European Asteria Oasis. Each has been left behind by its home on Earth. A dust storm nearly destroys the Vostok Settlement. No official rescue is coming.

Ian Everhart, a young engineer at Minos, sends a secret relief convoy, hidden behind an illegal truck race. From the convoys and the shelters cut into the rock, a forbidden network of cooperation grows between the four settlements, while the great powers on Earth want something very different. The novel asks a simple question: what happens to people when the big systems abandon them?

ICARUS is available on Amazon as a Kindle ebook and in paperback.

Enter the world

The world above is the online reading path of ICARUS. You travel across the map of Mars from station to station, with passages from the novel, music and notes. Your guide is Luna, a twin robot. The journey begins with the Prologue, and new stations open over time. Subscribe if you would like to hear when the story continues.

About the author

Zsolt Bugarszki was born in Hungary, lived in Estonia for years and now lives in Singapore with his family. He holds a PhD in social sciences and teaches social innovation. For more than twenty years he has studied how humans build systems, and how those systems fail. ICARUS is his first novel.

What comes next

The next book, The First Sol, is in the works.