Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club by Ben Bova
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The key to great science fiction is to tell a great story. In Mars, Inc., Ben Bova does just that. While the book is in one sense about the quest to launch a spaceship to Mars and the engineering, bureaucratic, financial, marketing, industrial espionage, hostile takeovers etc. work needed to make this happen; it is also a story of a man trying to do something that really matters.
Art Thrasher is rich, he does not lack for female companionship, by all modern measures he is a success. He is also a man who wants more. His father's last advice to him was to do something lasting, something that matters; and in his Mars project Art has found just that. Art also finds that he is no longer satisfied with simply female companionship and begins to build something lasting and that matters in that part of his life as well.
This is an expertly crafted novel that had my attention riveted from start to finish.
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