![]() ![]() Their return craft has suffered serious damage and may not be repairable. Landing on the Red Planet, veteran astronaut Julia Barth and her comrades run into difficulties. His Consortium launches a bare-bones Mars expedition that is closely followed by a Chinese-European attempt, and the race for Mars is on. ![]() Enter John Axelrod, eccentric billionaire and space aficionado. In the early 21st century, after NASA's Mars program has been grounded because of a Challenger-like catastrophe, a $30 billion prize is announced to be awarded to the first private organization that can land a spaceship on Mars, do serious science and return in one piece. With so many Mars novels having been published in recent years, including award-winning fiction by Kim Stanley Robinson and others, it's hard to believe that even a talented writer like Benford (Cosm) could pull off another successful retelling of humanity's first expedition to the Red Planet-but he does. ![]()
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