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ICARUS receives its first 5-star Amazon review praising its “gritty believable storyline.” Discover how months of research on Mars technology, climate, and psychology shaped this realistic sci-fi epic inspired by ancient Greek drama.

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Discover Icarus, the first novel in Mítosz - a high-stakes sci-fi epic set on the first human colonies of Mars. A story of survival, rebellion, AI, and the future of civilization. Read the first chapters now.

When you write science fiction, especially a story set against the backdrop of humanity’s first colonies on Mars, people inevitably ask:What side are you on? The truth is simpler, and more complicated: In The Mars Chronicles, there are no sides. There are only choices. The political background of The Mars Chronicles — the collapsed countries, the restructured great powers, the wave of new colonization efforts — is entirely fictional.These changes are not hidden messages about

Zsolt Bugarszki, author of Icarus – The Mars Chronicles, photographed in Singapore. First-time sci-fi novelist with a background in social sciences.