![]() ![]() ![]() Writing at Den of Geek, Megan Crouse called Before Mars "a thrilling science fiction mystery, a societal critique, and a character study". "This is the future I foresee if we continue as we are, with no change in political structures and no change in the ideologies of the most powerful political factions." Reception She added that the prospect of gov-corps becoming a reality is not quite so far-fetched. She added that because the story takes place some 80 years into the future, "I had a little leeway in terms of the spacecraft technology." On the subject of gov-corps that feature in her Planetfall books, Newman said she envisages a future where huge corporations control governments and monitor their citizens via neural implants. In an interview with Syfy Wire, Newman described the groundwork she had done for the book: "I did a lot of research on Mars itself, on traveling to it, and on geology and the survival challenges posed by living on ". ![]() She asked, "does that affect how much you process reality you process memory?" Newman said she also wanted to investigate how people in the future would react to being able to record and playback in memory everything they see, hear and feel via a "cam lens" and neural implants. She wanted to address the subject of memory, how people process it, and how it affects their perceptions of reality and mental illness. In an interview with, Newman said she wanted Before Mars to be a "psychological thriller". ![]()
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