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Gustavo Chen is recently widowed and trying to forget his past-he escapes into his teaching and aerospace research and obsessively surfs the La Jolla waves on his time off. An affair with a sexy young student and a mysterious job offer lead him into a world of industrial secrets, indigenous beliefs, and a microscopic extraterrestrial life-form that threatens worldwide disaster.
Journey from the mystical rainforests of the Yucatan to the sunny beaches of San Diego, and across the ocean to Japan in this thrilling science fiction adventure-the story of one man's attempt to stop mutated Martian viruses from coming to earth in the form of a killer plague. Spanning the centuries from 500 AD to the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, Mayan Mars is an intricate tale of seduction, deception, revenge, and undying love.
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The ancient Maya prophesied that the year 2012 would bring an end of their calendar and "the end of man." Some modern-day adherents have taken this to mean the end of the world, and oddly, many other cultures and some cults have also chosen the year 2012 as the date for an apocalypse of sorts. In Mayan Mars, a new novel, author Marc André Meyers takes another look at this ancient prediction, the culture that began it, and what might happen if certain unforeseen and unexpected events also took place. The science in this novel is not fiction, but fact. Professor Meyers has applied his years of experience working as a materials science advisor to the U.S. Army, among other agencies, to a scenario that actually could happen. If a Mars probe brought back a mutated Martian virus, what could that look like? And what if the point of impact was in the Yucatan, where those ancient Mayan prophecies were born? This intricately imagined plot brings ancient wisdom together with modern technology and mixes them in unexpected ways. Peopled by dangerous men and exotic women set against an intriguing backdrop of academic espionage, Mayan Mars both frightens and compels.
Mayan Mars
Mayan Mars,Marc Andre Meyers,Green Grass Press,0916251713,Extraterrestrial beings,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Human-alien encounters,Plague,Science Fiction,Science Fiction - Alternative History,Science Fiction - General
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