“Book Descriptions: How can an engineer codify failure? Is the answer available in a prototype? Must one always act on checklists? Or are there other means? Jennifer A. Howard’s flash fiction collection You on Mars: Failed Sci-Fi Stories flips the usual genre gimmicks—alien encounters, viral outbreaks, time travel plots—to expose how human delicacy and care proliferate in moments of failure and loss. Come into the engine room. Look up into the stars. Kiss your husband. See how love slips across spacetime? Ask yourself: Is this the same as it ever was? Decide what will you do when it is not.” DRIVE