The Mars House

This was an intriguing look at Mars colonization, colonialism, and segregation.  It features a Martian colony founded by China about seven generations ago.  The early settlers were genetically modified to handle the temperature range, lesser gravity, and extra radiation they would experience living on the red planet.  Their descendants are called Naturals.  Newer immigrants who are not modified must contain themselves in body cages or submit to dangerous medical altering so that they don’t accidently pose a physical threat to the lighter, less dense Naturals.  This, of course, has political implications.  This physical modification scenario adds a dimension that I haven’t seen before in books like Red Mars and its sequels, Moving Mars, or even The Martian Chronicles.  I was impressed by Pulley’s handling of it and very satisfied by the Queer relationship from which this is all observed.

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