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Introduction
Orphans of Mars is a series of science fiction books written by Tom Russell about-- as the cover blurb rather sensationally puts it-- "lesbian aliens fighting dinosaurs". It concerns the Daughters of Mars, an all-female sterile hybrid race bred as slave labor by two other species (collectively called the Mothers). After winning a long and brutal Genetics War that wiped out the Mothers and rendered Mars a red and uninhabitable wasteland, the Daughters fled to other planets and systems.

The books themselves concern one particular group of Daughters, who are sent to the nearby planet Earth some sixty-five million years in our past. Over half of their number is killed within twenty-four hours of landing. Coming from a violent warrior culture obsessed with honor and glorious death by combat, they find the old ways of little use against the behemoths that ruled our world.

The Orphans books are described by their author as being "pulpy, violent, and sexy" and filled with "action, humor, political intrigue, and dinosaurs". The stories are usually told from the indirect point-of-view of one of the Daughters of Earth Colony. The most common viewpoint characters are Nerrine and Ress.

The first two books, 2014's Earth Colony and To Bell The Cat, were originally serialized online as Journey Into # 12, Orphans of Mars # 1-6, and Orphans of Mars: To Bell The Cat # 1-6 (though there are important differences between the serialized versions and the canonical book versions, especially in the case of the second book). Starting with the third book, 2015's The Transit of Venus, the series presents brand-new material written expressly for the books.

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