A sweeping epic of Mars's fight for freedom--an unforgettable saga of war, family, and civilization on the red frontier. For generations, the Newcastles, Mackenzies, Atkinses, Hyltons, and Hollinses have endured the hard red soil of Mars--surviving by individual grit, intense family loyalty, and free-market trade. Scarred by World War III and its long, violent aftermath, they built farms, raised domes, forged alliances, and carried old grudges to a new world. Trade with the nearby Chinese enclaves brought prosperity for a time. But then trade becomes tribute--and tribute becomes force. When Chinese armored columns grind across Karl's Ramp and convoys are torn apart in the Chaos, Mars is plunged into war. The clans face an empire pressing down from above and rivalries tearing them apart from within. From isolated domes to the vastness of Martian plains and interplanetary space, war sparks into revolution as the struggle for hearth and home becomes a desperate attempt to form a new nation on an alien world. A vast chronicle of clans and civilizations, of families too proud to yield, too divided to trust, and too determined to be ruled. The first entry in the Red State interplanetary series.