How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program
trapped 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 driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has
utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat:
form a “club” or billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the
dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough
cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line, and disdainful of
pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody else’s dreams come true.
But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important
regard: he’s a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful
company. But it’s going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry
and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and
sabotage — and get a rocket full of scientist, engineers, visionaries, and
dreamers on their way to the Red Planet.
The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to humans on Mars — or die trying!
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The author of more than 100 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, Dr. Ben Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age.
President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, "for fueling mankind's imagination regarding the wonders of outer space."
His 2006 novel TITAN received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. Earlier, he was an award-winning editor of ANALOG and OMNI and an executive in the aerospace industry.
Dr. Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television and popular lecturer.
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Written by Bob Milne (2014-01-02)
![]() With a title like Mars, Inc. and the name Ben Bova attached to it, you would think you'd know what to expect. Personally, I was excited to get my hands on an ARC,and went into this with high hopes. As much as I tried to hold onto those hopes, though, the 'real' story I expected to find beginning in the next chapter never materialized.
This was so very much not what I was expecting from a master like Ben Bova. It felt like a throwback to 60s and 70s pulp sci-fi, but not in a good way. It was ... (more)
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