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New Sci-Fi Novel Tells A Very American Story On Mars

Travis Corcoran’s latest Sci-Fi novel, ‘Red State Mars,’ is both an adventure romp in space and a trenchant reflection on America’s pioneer spirit.

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A central pillar of any American story is one’s willingness to go to hard places and do hard things so that you might rely on yourself, provide for your family, and truly be free. The goal is for the next generation to have an easier time than you did. Our history has been written by men and women who lived and died by this rule.

It wasn’t the wealthy trust-fund babies of England who carved plantations out of raw wilderness at Plymouth and Jamestown in the 1600s, or hacked their way across the Cumberland Gap in the 1700s, or wrangled viable states out of the hell of the southwest desert in the 1800s; those things were done by grunts who knew the job was going to suck but they jumped into it anyway, hoping for the slim chance of success. Many of them died. The survivors built the foothold of the country we have today.

Four hundred years after the Mayflower sailed into Cape Cod, the corners of our map are filled in, and the world is bereft of frontiers. Yet we as a people haven’t changed; we aim to expand, to find new ground, and the next wilderness awaits us in the skies. The 20th century saw the start of the Space Age, and things are only accelerating. Before long, we’ll be looking at dome cities on the moon, and perhaps in my lifetime there will be permanent residents on Mars. When that time comes, that profoundly American quality — the willingness to Embrace the Suck — will once again........

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