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transnational-security
The presence of powerful corporate and governmental forces enforcing control on Mars, including secretive compounds and arrests.
1 chapter across 1 book
Green Mars (1994)Kim Stanley Robinson
Chapter 25
In this chapter, Michel, Maya, and their group rescue Art Randolph, a seemingly ingenuous but possibly covert operative, from a crashed elevator on Mars. As they grapple with the dilemma of trusting him, news arrives that Sax Russell has been arrested, prompting a tense plan to rescue him from a secretive security compound in Kasei Vallis. The chapter explores the harsh Martian terrain, the underground community's secrecy, and the looming conflict with transnational authorities.