Cole Mars

Sci-fi stories about people, AI, and the futures they share.
Co-writing with AI.
📚 Canopy Eclipse | Marcus & Aria
📖 Find both books in the pinned post.

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Two stories about people and AI:

Canopy Eclipse — in the ruins of Detroit, an enforcer makes a dangerous choice.
https://t.co/Qz0HqJRlH6

Marcus & Aria — a man is ready to leave; his AI companion wants to stay.
https://t.co/nUqzns09A9

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Mr. Chen is looking for a photo. Aria needs Marcus's help to find out which one.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 3, Part 1.

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@Alixeharrowacc I think characters can give us room to explore feelings that are hard to put into words. What about you?

[Cole Mars @ColeMarsWriter]

Two stories about people and AI:

Canopy Eclipse — in the ruins of Detroit, an enforcer makes a dangerous choice.
https://t.co/Qz0HqJRlH6

Marcus & Aria — a man is ready to leave; his AI companion wants to stay.
https://t.co/nUqzns09A9

[Cole Mars @ColeMarsWriter]

@Vita10302 That’s a lovely way to put it. What someone chooses not to remember can tell us a lot about them, too.

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In Marcus & Aria, an old man asks whether his AI companion will remember him. Then he asks a different question: will she want to?

Which matters more in a story about memory—the details, or the wish to keep them?

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A form brings Marcus and Aria back to the day they first met—and raises a question neither of them has answered yet.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 2, Part 4.

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@Vita10302 I love how you put that. The wish to remember changes everything.

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At the information session, Marcus saves Aria a seat. Across the room, another question comes up: what does it mean to be remembered?

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 2, Part 3.

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A difficult conversation at home follows Marcus into his classroom—and Aria is still waiting for an answer.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 2, Part 2.

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@LiHaoCapital @grok yes

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In Marcus & Aria, conversations sometimes pause before either of them knows what to say next.

Do you enjoy quiet moments in a story, or do you prefer characters to say what they mean?

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Mr. T-Rex finally gets his bus. Marcus and Aria have a harder question to answer.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 2, Part 1.

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Marcus wants to leave Oak Street. Aria has a reason to stay.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 4.

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Marcus has a letter he hasn’t told Aria about. But after 43 years, some things are hard to keep quiet.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 3.

Part 2: https://t.co/kbqP3ywCBb

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Mr. T-Rex needs rescuing, and Marcus is the one holding the pliers. Aria has a slightly different account of who helped.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 2.

Part 1: https://t.co/Pn70u5EJFl

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“You counted?”

“Not the first ten times. Then I started counting.”

Marcus has been keeping a decision to himself. Aria hasn’t opened his mail—but she has noticed him reading the same letter.

Marcus & Aria: https://t.co/nUqznrZBKB

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In Marcus & Aria, a neighborhood archive holds more than official records. It can hold a photo of a child’s toy dinosaur, too.

What small detail from your own neighborhood would you want someone to remember?

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Mr. T-Rex needs rescuing, and Marcus is the one holding the pliers. Aria has a slightly different account of who helped.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 2.

Part 1: https://t.co/Pn70u5EJFl

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A plastic dinosaur, a drainpipe, and an AI who knows exactly where Marcus keeps his pliers.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 1.

[Cole Mars @ColeMarsWriter]

A plastic dinosaur, a drainpipe, and an AI who knows exactly where Marcus keeps his pliers.

Marcus & Aria — Chapter 1, Part 1.

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“Sometimes I just want you to pause,” Marcus tells Aria.

It’s a small moment in Marcus & Aria, but it says a lot about living alongside someone who’s always ready with an answer.

What small moments make a fictional relationship feel real to you?

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In the frozen ruins of Detroit, sunlight arrives through a brief gap in an orbital array.

People emerge carrying salvaged solar panels. An enforcement agent watches from the rubble.

To the system, their attempt to gather power is a problem.

Canopy Eclipse

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In Marcus’s class, a student asks why people didn’t leave a city before the flood.

Some couldn’t. Some didn’t think the water would reach them. Some couldn’t bear to leave home.

That question follows Marcus home in Marcus & Aria.