The Martian Race

MARCH, 2015. NASA’S FIRST MANNED VOYAGE TO MARS IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH.

But disaster strikes. The rocket explodes, killing the entire crew, and the US government abandons the project. What they come up with in its place will change the nature of space exploration for ever.

Businessman John Axelrod and his consortium have every intention of winning the $30 billion Mars Prize for the first successful mission to the red planet. He knows that it will involve far higher risks than the one NASA had planned. But he has no choice. He has to win.

THE MARTIAN RACE HAS BEGUN.

The Martian Race is the extraordinary new science fiction thriller from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Timescape, Cosm and Foundation’s Fear.

‘Benford is a scientist who writes with verve and insight not only about black holes and cosmic strings but about human desires and fears’ — New York Times Book Review