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    THE ASCENDANCY OF MARSCO

    The Marsco Saga continues with last book in the series, The Ascendancy of Marsco.

    THE ASCENDANCY OF MARSCO

Author of The Marsco Saga

JAMES A. ZARZANA

William James once said, “The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” It’s something that (I hope) holds true in both my life’s professions—teaching and writing.

In 2015 after 41 years in the classroom—26 at Southwest Minnesota State University—I decided to step down and fully focus on my writing, something I’ve done in my free time for many years. Retirement (pause for a brief chuckle), let’s rephrase, writing full-time has brought a different cadence to my life. Without classes to prep and teach, without papers to grade and meetings to attend, I can set a schedule to write every day and to work on whatever major project I wish—the most recent being the long-standing series I’ve worked on across many years, The Marsco Saga, and a new young adult novel, Sir Torne, top the list.

They say to write what you know so it’s a good thing I’ve lived across the United States—hailing originally from Sacramento, California, then Indiana, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and back to Indiana again though I have yet to live in a Marsco World so these writings are a figment of my imagination. It is my hope that I’ll boldly take my readers to places they’ve never dreamed of, too.

 

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The Marsco Saga

Four-Novel Series

 

Read The Marsco Dissident, Book I

Read The Marsco Dissident, Book I

In a world ruled by a single megacorporation that emerged from the ashes of plagues and wars, Marsco commands Earth and its colonies throughout the solar system.

Read Marsco Triumphant, Book II

Read Marsco Triumphant, Book II

After the events of The Marsco Dissident, the corporation’s enemies and allies have regrouped to consider their options.

Read The Marsco Sustainability Project, Book III

Read The Marsco Sustainability Project, Book III

Fifty years have passed since the escape ship, secretly left Earth’s solar system heading for a distant, habitable planet. What awaits them upon their return?

COMING SOON  ||  The Ascendancy of Marsco, Book IV

COMING SOON || The Ascendancy of Marsco, Book IV

The Ascendancy of Marsco is the final of four speculative science fiction novels in The Marsco Saga.

Kirkus Reviews

Marsco Triumphant / Read the Full Review

“Compulsively readable military sci-fi with a strong humanist side that isn’t overwhelmed by bloodshed and doomsday weapons.”

Blue Ink Review

“For science fiction fans, this is a series not to be missed.”

Kirkus Reviews

Marsco Triumphant / Read the Full Review

"Zarzana’s (The Marsco Dissident, 2013) bravura second installment in his ongoing saga continues his broad-canvas approach to political power plays, betrayals, and invasions at the end of the 21st century..."

Kirkus Reviews

The Marsco Dissident / Read the Full Review

“The scale of Zarzana’s imagination is practically Asimovian . . . Socioeconomic sci-fi on a broad canvas that reads like dire headlines from tomorrow.”

Donald J. Plefka

“The first but not the last”: The Marsco Dissident has its roots in the governments and multi-national corporations of today and the author does a great job in analyzing what is now to see what it could be ... or may be. The technology is believable and even reasonable. But that is not what the book is about. Several of the characters are searching their minds and hearts to decide what direction they want to go. But of course, just like real life, outside forces intervene to make their decisions for them, or at least send them in unintended directions.

David H. Moss

“A Cautionary Tale”: The Marsco Dissident eerily mirrors the potential future of our current civilization and its dystopian evolution. A world where nations abandon and cordon off the disadvantaged, a world ravaged by war and disease. Marsco is a global and extra-global entity that has filled the vacuum of post-apocalyptic chaos. It controls key resources while attempting to preserve the status quo of its elites, even while paying lip service to improving the lot of all humans. This is a thought-provoking book with a rich historical context."

Michael Martin

“A big novel destined to become a classic”: This is a large book with well-fleshed characters and a canvas as wide as the orbit of Jupiter. Zarzana. . . gives us a kaleidoscopic picture of a future where the Marsco Corporation (based out of Seattle) has taken over the world and dominated every aspect of daily life and commerce."

COMING SOON

THE ASCENDANCY OF MARSCO

The Marsco Saga is a four-novel series set in a world ruled by a single megacorporation that emerged from the ashes of plagues and wars, when cyber-warfare rendered computer systems nearly inoperable. Now Marsco commands Earth and its colonies throughout the solar system. Marsco owns all the cybernetics and keeps tight control over who operates computers, using microchips embedded in authorized fingertips.

The Ascendancy of Marsco continues the saga.

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