A new novel from Ben Bova, creator of the New York Times bestsellingGrand Tour science fiction series.
How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government programtrapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure.No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays,a generous dollop of seduction — both in and out of the boardroom —and money, money, money! Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a drivingvision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher hasgot the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “club” ofbillionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. Butthese are men and women who are tough cookies, addicted to a profitablebottom-line, and disdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use theircash to make somebody else’s dreams come true. But, Art Thrasher isprepared to do whatever it takes to get humans on Mars — or dietrying!

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Visual artist(s): Steven Perkins