I, Mars

Alone on Mars for sixty years, Emil Barton has learned how to survive silence.

What he never learned was how to escape himself.

On his eightieth birthday, a telephone rings for the first time in decades. The voice on the line is young, confident, cruel-and unmistakably his own. A recording made long ago, when Barton was stranded on Mars as a young man, now speaks back across time. As more voices begin to call-copies of himself scattered across abandoned Martian cities-the line between memory,...