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Description: News and discussion for the book \"In the Shadow of Ares\" by Thomas L. James and Carl C. Carlsson, a young adult/mainstream hard science fiction novel set on Mars.
Website of Science Fiction Authors Thomas L. James and Carl C. Carlsson
These devices have been featured so far in In the Shadow of Ares and quite prominently in Redlands and He Has Walled Me In .
A science pin, as described in ItSoA, is a device shaped like a scaled-up golf tee, with a stem 1-1.5m long, and a head 100-150mm across and anywhere from 50mm to 400mm tall. The stem contains common power generation, storage, and management functions, and in the field is mounted to a peg or sleeve drilled or driven into the soil or rock. The head consists of one or more cylindrical modules of different heights and a wide variety of functions. These modules thread together at the center with a common phy
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