When embedding the collage in the ebook for Under False Colors, I was disappointed to find I was allowed only a very few characters for the alt text. Since the collage was composed almost entirely of text, that wasn’t enough.

So on this page, I am sharing a larger version of the collage, plus the text version as I originally wrote it. Hopefully that will be helpful if you can’t enjoy the collage as it appears in the ebook.

37 people killed at last night’s riot

no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing

renamed the station Liberty

we have a duty to our ancestors

It is impossible to live under the restrictions they place on us

18 deaths confirmed in union related conflict

demonstrators protested unfair university admission standards

every minute since we are born, we’re only waiting for our chance

I wanted to hand down the hard work of my ancestors to my children, is that such a crime?

protestors demanded votes

protestors demanded fair pay

protestors demanded an end to prison labor

I see life on Mars as a torch we hand on from generation to generation, I don’t trust colonists to keep it burning

Child, 7, dead, mother says he was ‘too young to be working’

impressment riots

Imperial Guard fired into the crowd

It is impossible to estimate the numbers lost in last night’s purge

My family came here for a better life but that was a lie

death tolls continue to rise

GOD FUCK THE EMPREX

Mourning Continues for the Emprex

I believe it is better to be crushed beneath the wheels than to drive them

The atmosphere is boiling away thanks to this revolution

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that

all of us are Martians

we bleed red as Mars does

21 dead in Landing riot

trapped on Deimos and we don’t know if we will ever see Mars again

they’re undermining the war effort

I have dreamed all my life of a Mars that is one and at peace.

a Martian is anyone whose heart is set on these red cliffs

This is my own, my native land!

while kings and corps divide, everywhere the People are one

life on this planet is too precarious to survive infighting

we are trapped as cogs in a machine that is not of our making

19 dead in purge

I blame no one and seek no vengeance. I only want to heal Mars.

at this point I no longer wish for the old Mars

I ask only for an end to violence

there is no going back to how things were

but let the blue waters of the Hellas Sea continue to flow

not all broken things can be mended

ground to be broken on new construction today

57 dead in riot

only

together

can we

create a better

Mars