A prisoner is given a deal he can’t refuse in an excerpt from S.J. Morden’s sci-fi novel One Way

Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. A new novel, One Way, by S.J. Morden, falls in the middle: we’ve reached Mars, but now, we need to figure out how to build a civilization.In Morden’s future, that monumental task is placed upon humanity, and governments have contracted companies to begin buildi