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"Antecedent is a hard science fiction thriller set on a near-future Mars colony — think Andy Weir meets Michael Crichton. I'm looking for beta readers who love big ideas, hard science, and stories that ask whether civilizations can break cycles of self-destruction. Sign up to get an advance copy and share your feedback."
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Humanity, having rendered Earth uninhabitable, evacuates its survivors to Mars — where a small advance colony has spent two decades terraforming. As the colony fractures under the weight of millions of desperate refugees, a deep-drilling operation breaches a sealed chamber two kilometers below the Martian surface. The discovery inside will challenge everything science believes about the origin of life on Earth, the forces that shaped its evolution, and the cataclysms that cleared the path for humanity to exist — moments science believed it understood, reframed by evidence that suggests none of it was accidental. It will reveal a connection between Mars and Earth that is far older and far more deliberate than anyone imagined. And it will leave 200,000 people — the last significant population of humans in the solar system — with a choice that no civilization has ever faced: whether to repeat the pattern that created them, or try to break it.