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Call Number: Science Fiction / Suarez, Daniel, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Suarez, Daniel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid--with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce and the stakes couldn't be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first century adventurers--ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers--must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. They're determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one--or die trying"-- Provided by publisher.

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What if the space billionaires go rogue? submitted by ken on July 7, 2019, 3:09pm This novel posits a near future in which one of the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezoses of the author's world, billionaires building private spaceflight capacity, go all for broke to mine an asteroid and prove, by having done it, that any risk is worthwhile. The plot for the first 2/3 of the novel is gripping and reasonably self-consistent, but the last part of the novel seems to rush headlong to an ending that would have been better with more exposition and time. Still, a good read and entertaining. The basic setup seems almost plausible.

In some ways, this novel feels like an unauthorized introduction to the universe of The Expanse; how humanity (sans Epstein drive) took its first steps to the asteroids.