Book description
March, 2015. Nasa's first manned voyage to Mars is about to launch. But
disaster strikes - the rocket explodes, killing the entire crew, and the
US government abandons the project. What they come up with in its place
will change the nature of space exploration together. Businessman John
Axelrod and his consortium have every intention of winning the billion
Mars Prize for the first successful mission to the red planet. He knows
that it will involve far higher risks than the one NASA had planned. But
he has no choice. He has to win. Gregory Benford (1941 - ) A leading
writer of 'Hard SF', Gregory Albert Benford was born in Alabama in 1941.
He received a BSc in physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed
by an MSc and PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His
breakthrough novel, Timescape, won both the Nebula and John W. Campbell
Memorial Awards, and he has been nominated for the Hugo Award four times
and the Nebula twelve times in all categories. Benford has undertaken
collaborations with David Brin and Arthur C. Clarke among others and, as
one of the 'Killer Bs' (with Brin and Greg Bear) wrote one of three
authorised sequels to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. He has also
written for television and served as a scientific consultant on Star
Trek: The Next Generation. Gregory Benford lives in California, where he
is currently Professor of Plasma Physics and Astrophysics at the
University of California, Irvine, a position he has held since 1979.
