Outpost Mars

Now a legal crisis with Brenner Pharmaceuticals threatens to destroy all the colony's hard work.

The clock ticks with less than a week until the next rocket shipment goes out; the council goes into a mad search to find a culprit or the missing drugs as they face being shut down and starved out.

By looking into the suspicious murder of a nearby pregnant woman and health complications with the newborn, Sunny, Tony continues to unravel the mystery of the stolen Marcaine.

Small child-sized footprints turn up in the desert and the story grabs Graham's interest.

Graham, Hellman and his assistant Anna make a series of spectacular discoveries that lead to the unearthing of a secret mutant dwarf species of Mars that has been eating the stolen Marcaine as its natural food source.

Cover of the Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, May 1951 issue, featuring Mars Child .