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<p>Ligia, a young overweight geologist, copes with day-to-day harassment from her prospecting team mates. Mars society's female-to-male ratio negates any chance of companionship for her.<br> While the specter of an all-out war looms over the Red Planet, she imagines the floating cities of Venus, where a mostly male population of scientists work to reverse the hothouse effect of their inhospitable world. <br> When a freak accident leaves her stranded with an incoming sandstorm, Ligia has only a few hours of air left in her tanks. She must draw upon her meager resources and her rising anger to extend her life. <br> But is survival really worth it when death can plunge from the sky at any moment?</p><br> <p><br>***<br> A quirky story of a proud woman squeezed inside a narrow-minded society by Michèle Laframboise.</p><br> <p>***</p><br> <p>"...a<i> story about human resourcefulness in the face of an otherwise certain death on the surface of Mars</i>." (Paul Lappen, Dead Trees Review)</p><br> <p>"...an account of a resourceful fat (this is a plot point) female protagonist stuck on Mars.”</p><br> <p>Can Litt Reviews - issue 200 Canadian Literature</p>