Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Battlefield Mars | 2016 | David Robbins | Buy |
| 2 | Colony Down | 2016 | David Robbins | Buy |
| 3 | Species War | 2017 | David Robbins | Buy |
Battlefield Mars is a science fiction trilogy that takes David Robbins away from his usual Western and post-apocalyptic settings. Published in 2016 and 2017, the three novels follow human colonists on Mars who discover that the planet is already home to dangerous alien life. What begins as a survival story in Battlefield Mars escalates through Colony Down and into the all-out Species War of the final volume.
The trilogy shows Robbins applying his action-writing skills to a science fiction scenario. The pacing is fast, the body count is high, and the alien threat is treated as a serious military problem rather than a puzzle to be solved peacefully. Fans of military science fiction and creature-feature stories will find this a quick, entertaining read.