Mind Painter by Tom B. Night

Part near-future dystopia, part visionary future thriller, Mind Painter by Tom B. Night welcomes readers into humanity’s imagined realities on two different planets. Driven by the eternal quest for home, and a paradoxical plot where Earth’s ex-pats want to re-colonize the blue planet, this richly layered story is fantastical, yet grounded in deeply relatable issues. Climate change is stimulating desperation and conflict on our planet, and in less than a decade we could be facing struggles similar to what Night has depicted here. Add in wildly creative prose that brings the 24th century Martian landscape to life, a cast of evocative, three-dimensional characters, and a sinister astral corporation, and the result is a masterful work of dystopian sci-fi.