How to Get Easy Sex on Mars

Or “What would happen if someone walked naked across the surface of the red planet.”

Claudinho was happy!

He had just received the news from Marscom, saying that he had passed the necessary tests to enter the “Terraformer Level F” course, not the most sophisticated, nor the most reputable college on Mars, but…

Even so, he would now become a college student!

That was an incredible feat for a great-grandson of a Brazilian family who fled Earth in the cargo hold of a StarShip XII to avoid persecution by the Ultra-Evangelist Revolutionary Government!

All his friends needed to know…

And they already knew!

In milliseconds, the first message arrived from Marscom: “Claudinho, how proud I am! If you have a celebration party, I would love to attend!”

“Clarissa McKatsutani… This nerd doesn’t really give up on me!” — he thought.

Without responding to the young woman in love, he reserved a spot in the panoramic lounge at Station X Æ A-12 Musk, where he would drink Martian beer with friends — unfortunately, he had no credit for terrestrial beer — until the sun went down on Utopia Planitia.

The party was, let’s say, intense. After the seventh or eighth round, the group of twenty-five people was already making more noise than the nearby terraforming plants. Happy with the first of its…