Storyline: by the year 2077, the US Mars program has had a
functional self-sustained base on Mars for about 15 years. Cargo
ships move back and forth with goods, a journey that takes just
more than a year. Our hero is adventurous cargo pilot Guy Reisling.
About this time, space science on Earth and star observatories
conclude that a rather large asteroid will either hit the Earth, or
come very, very close to a strike, in about five years. But our
story is not about the meteor. The novel spans this five year
period, during which time the Eastern
Russian-Islamic/Ukrainian-Hindustan space program alliance on
Earth, secretly launch their own ships to Mars, to take control of
the US base there by force, and provide for themselves if and when
the approaching asteroid actually causes significant Earth
devastation. The US Mars base operations, with about 230 people who
live and work there, are peaceful and scientific or
research-oriented only. The base has no weapons or only very few,
and functions year round in the hot and cold, very thin, almost
non-existent Mars atmosphere, an airtight high-tech fortress at the
feet of the towering Tharsis Montes mountains. Guy Reisling and his
crew, Mars program director Lynn Rodgers-Smith, Mars-base commander
Bojji-Than, and other colorful characters, have a year to prepare
for the advancing Russian-Islamic ships, and then must somehow find
a way to defend the base itself and residents, as the US Mars ships
sent to save them, led by experienced space-pilot and Mars fleet
commander Winton 'Kick' Berle, finally arrive months later. At the
same time, international intrigue back home on Earth, creates an
East-West conflict between the competing space-programs, and their
considerable value to the future.
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