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A dying world. A smuggler with a buried past. An AI that remembers what humanity chose to forget.

Mars was meant to be humanity’s second chance. Instead, it became a sedated colony. Its air laced with lithium to keep the peace, its people calm enough to forget what freedom feels like.

Jake Westmoor makes his living in that silence, running black-market oxygen through the storm belts. But when a job gone wrong leaves him stranded at the derelict ship Elysium Grace, he awakens something ancient in its core; Mara, a long-lost artificial intelligence once built to keep Mars alive.

Now hunted by corporate assassins and haunted by a voice that blurs the line between machine and soul, Jake must uncover the truth buried beneath the red dust: that the planet’s calm is not peace, but control.

Lithium Sky is a cinematic fusion of hard-science fiction, psychological thriller, and tragic love story. Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch, Peter F. Hamilton, and Alastair Reynolds.