Chapter 33
2875 Pohl Station
Life on Mars was different than Seabrook. Alien, in many ways. At first, I didn’t realize how alien Pohl Station was, not until I had my first big case.
Seabrook never felt like the frontier. Only twenty light-years from Earth, one of the first inhabitable worlds colonized. Despite the somewhat harsh conditions and predatory aquatic species, it was in many ways a nearly perfect match for humanity. Right temperature, compatible biochemistry, gravity within a few percentage points of Earth’s, and free of much of the radiation and pollution that came with Earth’s long history. Ideal, until you had to grow up there.
Strange, then, to discover a true frontier in the Sol system, so close to Earth that you could see it in the sky.
Yet Mars was a frontier. Nothing
