"Red Tide - Life on The Martian Frontier" tells the story of Myah, a 27-year-old marine biologist, working for NASA on a research grant to identify new marine life forms on the Great Barrier Reef while logging damage to the reef caused by the last global warming cycle. She enjoys her life in Australia but her reef diving comes to an end when she is abruptly recalled to Port Canaveral Florida where her grant sponsor assigns her to a new mission.
Her sponsor wants to send a marine biologist, trained to identify new life forms, to help in the search for past life on Mars. Myah is convinced to go when her sponsor shows her a piece of sediment extracted from a bore sample on the Martian frontier. He believes the sediment is a clue that points to extinct sea life that once existed on the planet. Myah agrees that the sediment may be further evidence that Mars once had a vast surface ocean but doesn't believe it means that life once existed there. Her sponsor is determined to prove that it does.
Red Tide follows Myah's journey, beginning on a cruise ship that takes her to Armstrong City, a tourist colony on the Moon, and then continues on a transport headed to the mining colony on Mars. Once on Mars, Myah joins a team of scientists on an expedition following that clue into the Martian frontier where they survive the hostile atmosphere and destructive Martian winds to discover a hidden secret about the planet.
This book gives the reader a picture of life at the end of the 21st Century. Red Tide looks at life 66 years from now, in a time when the commercialism of the Moon has turned it into a magnet for space tourism and where there are 5,000 colonists already living on Mars. It looks at the human side of colonial life in an alien settlement. Try to imagine what that world will be like as travel to the Moon becomes affordable and commonplace. Imagine what your next vacation might be like? If you could, would you take a cruise ship to the Moon? Would a chance to visit the Aldrin Crater Garden National Park to see the LEM landing site bring you there?
Try to imagine what the world will be like at the end of the century. It is a time when pandemics and climate change are driving man to live on alien worlds. Is this world possible? Keep in mind that it took 66 years to go from Kitty Hawk to Neal Armstrong stepping on the Moon. Red Tide by Jim Grebey will challenge your imagination... and help you picture what life will be like at the end of this century. A world your grandchildren may well live in.