Mars, Inc.: The Billionaires Club Audiobook (Free)

Bova, a six-time Hugo Award winner and past president of theNational Space Society, profits to his most popular and bestselling subject matter: the search for Mars!

How do you reach the Red World? Not with a benightedgovernment plan trapped in reddish tape and destined by budget constrictions,that’s for certain. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science,corporate power takes on, a nice dollop of seduction-both in and out of theboardroom-and money, money, money!

Art Thrasher knows this. He’s about Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire’s Golf club a man having a traveling vision:send humans to Mars. The federal government has utterly failed, but Thrasher provides gotthe plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “membership” of billionaires to chip inone billion a season until the wish is accomplished. The problem is certainly, these menand females are hard cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line anddisdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who wish to use their money to makesomebody else’s dreams become a reality.

But Thrasher is different from the various other dreamers in animportant respect: he’s a billionaire himself, as well as the president of the successfulcompany. Still, it does take all his wiles as a captain of sector andmaster manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks andsabotage-and get a rocket filled with scientists, designers, visionaries, anddreamers on their way towards the Red Planet.

The man for the work has arrived. Art Thrasher is ready todo whatever needs doing to put human beings on Mars-or perish trying!