Ultima (2015)
“Even once she was safely inside the dome, she stumbled and had to be caught by Mardina and led to the rest of the party.
“Damn Martian gravity,” Stef growled. “Neither one thing nor the other, neither a proper weight nor weightlessness, so a person my age can get around without inconveniencing herself.”
Mardina laughed. “But, Stef, if you can’t even get out of the testudo without a struggle, how will you manage the great leap between the worlds through—that?”
Stef glanced around to get her bearings, here on the Mars of the Incas, a heavily mined but intact Mars—very unlike the Mars that had been wrecked by Earthshine at the terminus of the lost Roman-Brikanti history. The Malleus had been landed close by, and over they had come in the testudo. Aside from the rover tracks back to the ship, this Mars, in this area anyhow—a copy of the ancient landscape of the Terra Cimmeria—looked pristine, to Stef’s eyes.
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