Book description
The odds were against them every step of the way.
“Drugged with figures, working more and more from sheer obstinacy,
stubbornly trying everything I could think of to try, I came up with
the conclusion that our chances of getting to Mars, when we left the
soil of Earth, had been about a thousand to one against. And they
weren't very much better now.”
Bill Easson has made it out of Earth's doomed atmosphere in his
lifeship - with ten Earthling expats in tow - but countless questions
had followed them. Was Earth really doomed? How many more lives could
they have saved with more time to prepare? Would there even be enough
fuel to get to Mars?
And to what lengths will they go to get themselves there?
J. T. McIntosh is the pseudonym used by the Scottish science
fiction writer James Murdoch Macgregor. Born in 1925 in
Renfrewshire, he published his first short story in 1950 in
Astounding Science Fiction. His first novel was published in
1953. He died in 2008.
