John PahlJohn Pahl has designed a navigation and communication constellation for a Mars Polar Base and predicted mobile phone coverage within the Valles Marineris. After he had the mental image of a boy flying a blimp across the Martian plains, he began to woder the hows and whys behind the image. This developed into Martian Blood and the Noctilucents trilogy. He first saw noctilucent clouds while sailing a yacht down the east coast of Greenland, but since then he has seen them from his home in London. This is his second novel. Read More Read Less