A Martian's Guide to Eating

An energetic beagle full of mischief x a brilliant, beautiful, tragic, and endlessly patient strategist

Although Anier is an all-around top performer at Earth's base, she has a terrible temper, refuses to follow orders, eats and sleeps a lot, makes a racket, and loves to shout "werwerwer" for no reason. Give Anier a job and you're asking for trouble.

Until one day, this little menace, the wicked little beagle, was pinned down and beaten by an unknown new recruit.

Fuming, Anier ran to the recruit's room to start round two, only to get beaten up again.

And so began Anier's long journey of revenge, and getting beaten up.

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Fayi has always been cautious and meticulous, making plans for everything. As Mars's secret weapon, a genius infiltrator capable of blending in anywhere, she intended to lie low at Earth's base and carry out her mission. She never expected the unruly Anier to throw everything into disarray.

Under pressure to complete her mission and avoid having her identity exposed, Fayi also has to deal with the wicked little beagle, Anier, every day.

And so she gets trapped in a vicious cycle: make a plan, have the beagle ruin it, beat up the beagle, make a new plan.

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Reader's guide:

1. Mars is an all-female society. Unless stated otherwise, all characters in other settings are also female.

2. The couple switch roles, happy ending. Both are muscular warriors, though Anier is stronger due to her planet's gravity.

3. Hard science fiction, with a focus on the plot.

Theme: Freedom, equality, and peace