Red Planet | Themes and Characters
Red Planet opens with Jim and Frank paying a visit to their friend Doc MacRae on the eve of their departure for school in Syrtis Minor, a settlement at the Martian equator. Both the school and the settlement are owned by the Mars Company— the organization that headed the original colonizing effort on Mars and continues to control the planet's government.
School proves to be hardly the pleasant experience the boys had expected. The headmaster, Mr. Howe, demands conformity and absolute obedience of his pupils—just as the Company does of the colonists. Jim and Frank soon...
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