ACE
Published by Berkley
An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
Copyright © 2018 by Emma Newman
Penguin Random House supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader.
ACE is a registered trademark and the A colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Newman, Emma, 1976– author.
Title: Before mars / Emma Newman.
Description: New York: Ace, 2018. | Series: A planetfall novel; 3
Identifiers: LCCN 2017049468 | ISBN 9780399587320 (softcover) | ISBN 9780399587337 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Conspiracies—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION/Science Fiction/High Tech. | FICTION/Psychological. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6114.E949 B44 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049468
First Edition: April 2018
Cover illustration by Anxo Amarelle CGI
Cover design by Adam Auerbach
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.