Mars, Inc

A new novel from Ben Bova creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series Bova is a six time Hugo award winner and past president of the National Space Society Here Bova returns to his most popular and best-selling subject the quest for Mars!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!Meet the AuthorBen Bova has written more than one hundred twenty futuristic novels and nonfiction books and 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 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 In 2008 he won the Robert A Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature" Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television and a widely-popular lecturer His articles opinion
pieces and reviews have appeared in Scientific American Nature The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and magazines Earlier he was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry His Grand Tour novels such as Moonrise and Mars combine romance adventure and the highest degree of scientific accuracy to show how the human race will expand through the solar system and the impact this will have on individual human lives and society as a whole Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City where he has also directed film courses Bova currently lives in Florida