Betrayal Of The Red Planet --

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars.

But they are still exiles, unable to ever again breathe Earth's air . . .

And they are still pawns.

For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human colonists -- not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their own world; their success will kill them. Desperate, adin leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to destroy the Mars Project, knowing his people will perish in his glorious, doomed orgy of mayhem. Unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle to save both the Mars Project -- and the race she created.

"[A] moving story of people in crisis." --Vonda N. McIntyre, author of Dreamsnake

"Kevin J. Anderson is the heir apparent to Arthur C. Clarke." --Daniel Keys Moran, author of The Last Dancer

"This collision of passions and dreams makes CLIMBING OLYMPUS more than just another epic of Martian hardship and heroic hardware. Its intertwined stories of insiders and outcasts, of the trueborn and the interloper, raise issues of ownership, and claim-staking that show humankind pioneering not just the hostile environment of an alien planet but the frontiers of tribalism brought from the homeworld." --Reviews by Russell Letson

"Kevin Anderson's novel brings in a new frontier but he populates it with folks that Americans don't think of as new pioneers -- the Russians . . . Anderson's results are compelling and make for a great read." --Andrew Asch

"Kevin Anderson's most recent and certainly best novel length work . . . A very mature, serious, even solemn examination of the possible consequences of the human drive to expand its sphere of control, even at the cost of some finite part of our own humanity. Anderson's Mars is a living world in more than one sense, and even his less admirable characters have an inner strength that we cannot help admiring." --Don D'Ammassa