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008 180319s2013 nyu g 000 1 eng
020 $a9781451639346 (hbk.) :$cNT$880$
035 $a826802
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3552.O84$bM373 2013
082 00$a813.54
100 1 $aBova, Ben,$d1932-
245 10$aMars, Inc. :$bthe Billionaire's club /$cBen Bova.
260 $aRiverdale, NY :$bBaen ,$c2013.
300 $a357 p. ;$c25 cm.
520 $a"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage--and get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, visionaries and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aBillionaires$vFiction.
650 0$aInvestment clubs$vFiction.
651 0$aMars (Planet)$xExploration$vFiction.