Mars, Inc.
The Billionaire's Club
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Ben Bova
About this listen
Bova, a six-time Hugo Award winner and past president of theNational Space Society, returns to his most popular and best-selling subject: the quest for Mars!
How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benightedgovernment program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions,that's for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science,corporate power plays, a generous dollop of seduction - both in and out of theboardroom - and money, money, money!
Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision:send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has gotthe plan to accomplish such a feat: form a "club" of billionaires to chip inone billion a year until the dream is accomplished. The problem is, these menand women are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line anddisdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to makesomebody else's dreams come true.
But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in animportant regard: he's a billionaire himself, and the president of a successfulcompany. Still, it's going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry andmaster manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks andsabotage - and get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, visionaries, anddreamers on their way to the Red Planet.
The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared todo whatever it takes to put humans on Mars - or die trying!
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- Matt Watson-Power
- 21-03-22
Great story good narration apart from….
… his Australian accent! Not a big issue - liked a lot and the rest of it was great.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-21
Billionaires club
An intreeging story about the people who make things happen or otherwise.
Very well related, enjoyable to listen to.
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- BEHNAZ
- 08-12-16
interesting
It was a good length and interesting story, not too deep in science but at the point to make u curious about new sciences.
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- Call me Bob
- 12-05-24
Ok but not great
Thia is a near future story about a antreprenor trying to get to Mars. Less sci-fi and more social commentary. Not my favorite story but seems ok if you are into the personal struggle hero kind.
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- J. D. Stewart
- 09-10-21
engrossing tale
it started very slowly, but built the interest quite quickly. The author engendered empathy for the main character, but less so far the tertiary characters. All in all, a very good listen
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- s p henderson
- 05-03-22
Not really about Mars
While I was excited to return to the world so dramatically fleshed out in his popular Mars series, the writer is showing his age, too many lingering lines exploring voluptuous women who seem to only get ahead based on how attractive they are to men. Feels very last millennium.
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- C
- 17-08-24
Believable and twisty
A great story line that you could really believe may happen in the near future.
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- eleanor langwell
- 15-04-23
Don’t expect anything
This reads like a
1960s sexist writer story insufficient narration great but not the Australian accent. I heard ‘End’ when I thought the story was about to start. Well, I’ll never get that time back terrible. Don’t waste money. I read a lot of sci fi both classic and contemporary. This writer weakens my idea of the Hugo Award for sure.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-10-21
sexist
Based on his description of women author seems to be very horny. Stopped listening when he out of the blue started comparing rocket launching to having sex.
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