Ice Runners - A Red Horizon Graphic Novel

Mars, 2125. At the frozen pole, the cold kills faster than any enemy, and the enemy knows the ice better than you do.

Lieutenant Sanna Blomqvist, a red-haired Helios fighter pilot who starts every morning under a barbell, leads Frostbite Squadron on a four-hour escort of twelve ice-harvesting ships hauling the water that will one day become Mars's air. Free Mars militia fighters rise out of the ice. Her lasers fail in the cold. Her pilots' engines are freezing. So Sanna stops fighting the polar environment and starts using it: sound as radar, silence as camouflage, and a geothermal vent turned into a blizzard.

But the biggest battle is still to come, with twenty-plus militia fighters, a surprise ally from a rival corporation, and a question Sanna cannot stop asking: why would anyone sacrifice so much to attack one convoy?

Ice Runners is a 64-panel full-colour graphic novel adapted from the second story in the Crimson Wings collection: blue-white ice caves, tactical cleverness over brute force, and a quiet, chilling twist. If you like Mars sci-fi, aerial combat, strong female leads and cold, gorgeous art, this one is for you.