Shadows of Medusa

by Brian Enke

Overview

Secrecy shrouds the first mission to land human explorers on the planet Mars. Even David Debacco, the Director of Mission Support, doesn't know the identity of his sponsors or their true agenda. As David struggles to keep the brave Mars explorers alive, an expanding web of deceit threatens the mission and the woman he loves from afar.

Traveling to Mars in a bold pursuit of knowledge, Anna Schweitzer barely perceives the Earthly plots against her team. Despite impossible odds, she looks to Mars for hope. Will she survive long enough to reach a New World and battle its untamed surface? Or will she succumb to dangers in space more terrifying than anything left behind on Earth?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150144866
Publisher:	Brian Enke
Publication date:	12/25/2014
Series:	Shadows of Medusa , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	525
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Brian Enke is a Lead Computer Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He has worked on dozens of space missions and NASA projects since 2001, but various Mars and asteroid missions have always been his favorites because of the potential benefits to human exploration.

Brian is currently the Lead Science Pipeline Engineer for the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft that flew past Pluto several years ago and Arrokoth more recently. His main job is to receive data from the spacecraft and construct it into useful images and other science products - and then to make the products/images available to the general public.

In his spare time, Brian mentors a high school FIRST Robotics team in Nederland, Colorado (team 1584, the Pirates, now in hibernation, arrrrr!). He also volunteers as the Chapter Contact for the local Rocky Mountain Mars Society chapter and has previously served as a volunteer technical adviser to many Mars-related industry groups. His outreach events include public talks about space topics to middle/high schools, private groups, and radio/TV audiences.

Prior to his lengthy career in space science, Brian worked for 17 years as a systems integrator at Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois, USA. While at the Labs, he helped manage the most complex software project in the world.... which gives him a special perspective in complexity management of large projects. Now he applies this perspective to the space industry, battling the number one issue slowing down our progress in space: complexity.

Editorial Reviews

A gripping adventure in the near future, Shadows of Medusa merges the speculative fiction of Larry Niven with the complex characters and plot twists of Frederick Forsythe. The book introduces the reader to the characters involved in a bold assault on the vacuum of space and the barren sands of Mars... (cut) ... greatest aspirations are tested and resolved in this fine book and we see that Man's better nature not only prevails but opens the door to an amazing future.

Amazon - Julian Taylor

An outstanding mystery centered around a mission to Mars. Enke's skill as a story teller and his knowledge of space exploration are a powerful combination...

Amazon - Mark Cohen

Shadows of Medusa by Brian Enke is a genre-busting novel about a first manned mission to Mars. The novel is intrigue/suspense/mystery embedded within a strong and accurate framework of science/science fiction. The action shifts back and forth between the mission itself, where Anna... (cut) ... I enjoyed Shadows of Medusa so much I was willing to stay up until 3 in the morning in the middle of the high school standardized testing season to finish it!"

Amazon - Bruce Crocker

This book is so true to reality... this isn't the science fiction you're used to. Characters are deep and complex, their thoughts are inspired and their actions are fluid. Already since he began writing, much of the book has become true, like the formation of a space alliance [SEA]...

Red Colony website - Webmaster Red Colony

Best sci-fi mystery I've ever read.

MDRS director - Tony Muscatello