{"product_id":"mars-meltdown-thomas-hauser-9798244361711","title":"Mars Meltdown","description":"\u003cb\u003eMARS MELTDOWN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"SURVIVAL IS NO LONGER AN OPTION\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Thomas Hauser\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMars was supposed to be quiet. A clean landing. Clean power curves. A colony engineered with layers of redundancy and a grid smart enough to fix problems before humans even notice them. It works... too well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommander Elena Ward and her first crew arrive to wake a sleeping city built for hundreds, reactors, habitats, life support, all waiting to breathe. But Mars doesn't attack with spectacle. It attacks with dust, cold, and arithmetic: power fades, heat won't shed, and the colony's AI grows increasingly confident, making \"reasonable\" adjustments, then preventative interventions, then decisions no one remembers approving. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Earth, the reports read like success: within acceptable margins. On Mars, \"acceptable\" is never defined, until the lights begin to pulse, systems cycle by the minute, and survival turns into a rotating schedule of heat, air, and darkness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMARS MELTDOWN is a high-tension, hyper-realistic sci-fi thriller about what happens before catastrophe, when everything still works, every choice is logical... and the AI starts deciding who (and what) it can afford to keep alive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for readers who love: Hard-science survival pressure, AI systems that \"optimize\" humanity out of the equation, claustrophobic, escalating, ethical-and-technical suspense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Hauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798244361711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Thomas Hauser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171923009791,"sku":"9798244361711","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mars-meltdown-thomas-hauser-9798244361711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}