When you question assumptions, sometimes you find they aren’t valid after all. Richard Dominic Flandry has been doing that most of his life. Now he’s a billionaire. He’s going to question the assumptions about Mars.
The space agencies of the major powers have their careful plans for Mars. The lawyers and diplomats are crafting rules and regulations that will make the space frontier tidy, orderly and controlled. National space agencies will explore Mars according to rules and regulations, all in good time. It’s not going anywhere, after all.
None of them saw the Space Vikings coming. They’re in it for the money, and they don’t give a damn for the rules.
A billion dollar lottery win is their ante in a deadly game played with rocket ships and lawyers and armed men that will see them claim the wealth of an entire new world – if they succeed.
If they fail, their human enemies will be waiting … in the unlikely event they survive the worst Mars can throw at them.
Expedition is a hard science fiction novel of the first voyage to Mars. It’s exploration with an attitude.
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