Melinda should be happy to get to travel to Mars with her dad.Everyone wants to go to space,don't they?But not 18-year-old Melinda.She had her life all planned out with her earthbound boyfriend,and she's not happy when dad springs this graduation trip on her.Still,it's for less than a year,she can start college when she gets back,and her boyfriend will still be waiting.

Once she arrives on Mars,she's surprised at how,well...civilized the colonies are.Of course,she makes a few enemies when she inadvertently insults colonists she meets by calling them the equivalent of savages.Still,she manages to make friends with a second-generation colonist named Alex and is soon torn between new love and old prejudices.

Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars.She had her life all planned out—marry ross and become a teacher.but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation,she finds herself tempted to leave behind her comfortable existence on earth.Mars isn't at all what she expected,and when she meets Alex preston,a second-generation Martian colonist,she finds herself on a surprising new path.sylvia engdahl's classic novel has been revised and updated by the author to reflect new discoveries and research about Mars.

Part One ·Earth

Part Two ·Space

Part Three ·Mars

Part Four ·Phobos