There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts. But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees - an outlawed distributed intelligence - survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative. Fast forward to today. A signal reaches Mars: 'For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.' How... Voir plus