Renegades of Mars — Todd Downing

RED PLANET PERIL!Mars, 1936. The Jazz Age meets the Space Age. The planets of the inner solar system have been colonized using the special properties of Tri-Crystals to power rockets, rayguns, and much more. When some artificial-and highly unstable-crystal appears on the Martian black market, indigenous A.E.G.I.S. officer Sinari Vohn is plucked from the ranks to investigate. And her first command may well be her last.With a handpicked team consisting of a Terran criminal, a Venusian mob enforcer, a gorilla scientist, and an alien robot, she must solve the mystery of the volatile crystals, and face a sinister new player on the alien frontier: the Third Reich!Set in the world of the Airship Daedalus series and AEGIS Tales anthologies, Renegades of Mars is the first in a new raypunk saga from the author of Calico Kids, Sakuru, and The Parish. It's a rip-roaring sci-fi adventure full of pulpy action, mystery, and a touch of romance, hurtling toward an alternate second World War that will be fought not only on Earth, but in space.