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Return to Mars is part 2 of the saga of Kelem Rogeston, a 27th century Martian psychic and scientific genius. After being stranded on the alien world Plantanimus for six years, Kelem and Ndugu Nabole return to the human solar system courtesy of the Kren, the insectoid species they met while on Plantanimus. Upon their return they learn that the Phalanx, an evil fascist organization from Earth, has taken over the Terran Government and invaded Mars. The red planet has become a slave colony for Earth, forced to manufacture goods and technology for the mother planet. Kelem joins the resistance and eventually becomes the leader of the Martian rebels. With his psychic powers enhanced by his connection to the Dreamers of Plantanimus, the sentient plant life he met while stranded there, Kelem and the rebels defeat the Terran invaders. Return to Mars is full of epic space battles, sinister characters bent on total control of the Martian population and powerful psychics fighting on both sides of the conflict.
In the year 3860, historian Sulana Kay, an Earth-born Gulax female, travels to Centralia, the capital of the Milky Way Galaxy to solve the disappearance of the Rogeston Clan, the celebrated descendants of Martian psychic and genius, Kelem Rogeston, the inventor of the n’time engine and hero of the Martian War of Independence. Seeking to discover why they vanished from the planet Plantanimus in 2695, her investigation leads her to Professor Zephron Artemus, dean of Antiquity Studies at Centralia University, the foremost authority on all things Rogeston. After meeting the professor and his young Tarsian female assistant Thula, her obsessive need for an answer to the enigma soon reveals an even deeper mystery, when she meets a strange group of people living together in a huge mansion owned by Professor Artemus. Her quest for an answer to the fate of the Rogeston clan eventually turns into a struggle to hold on to her sanity and sense of self, when memories of a previous life as a member of the Rogeston family threaten to cause a schism in her psyche that could end her life.
In the year 10,023, The Realm, a corporation run by the Kelemite Church that promises life after death by transferring the consciousness of people into a network of quantum computers, has a serious glitch in their system. Desperate to avoid disaster and lose the millions of souls existing within the virtual reality of the company’s computer memory banks, they reluctantly call on Ogram Zepol, a quantum computer genius and declared agnostic, to fix the problem. Ogram discovers that The Realm’s computers have been infected with an alien virus implanted by a malevolent race from the Andromeda Galaxy called The Nadrogs. When the threat is revealed, Ogram is drawn into a dangerous and deadly galaxy-wide conflict involving an alien invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy, the radical policies of the Kelemite Church, Sister Allondra, a young novice nun, and Kelem Rogeston, the patron saint of the Kelemite Church. The Holographic Saint is the last chapter of the Plantanimus Saga. Here at last is the conclusion of Kelem Rogeston’s journey through galactic history.
In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó shows that astronomical sources, written in al-Andalus, the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula, belong to the same tradition and emphasizes the role of al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula in the transmission of Islamic astronomy to medieval Europe.