# The Martian Inca

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- Book: [The Martian Inca](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-martian-inca) ([The Martian Inca.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson/the-martian-inca.md))
- Authors: [Ian Watson](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-watson)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-456-2
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Mars Probe has crashed. A triumph of Soviet technology, the first two-way interplanetary probe performed brilliantly until the final stage of its return. Then something went wrong: rather than following its programmed course to a soft landing in its country of origin, the probe crashed in the Peruvian Andes. Now a weird infection beyond the understanding of medical science has wiped out an entire village - except for one man, who, alone and undiscovered by medics, survives. He has awakened to find himself become his own ancestor, and a god. Suddenly the flames of an Indian revolution are spreading South America; he is the Martian Inca.