An ambitious voyage into the science, courage and human cost of reaching another world.
03The novel
An ambitious voyage into the science, courage and human cost of reaching another world.
Half a century after EAGLE and CONDOR were lost in the void, PEGASUS carries not a handful of astronauts but hundreds of explorers to the Red Planet. Told week by week across six months of 2075 and 2076, the story moves between the Martian wilderness and a manhunt on Earth for the preacher known only as the Prophet, a man determined that the mission will never return.
01 · The science
Engineered, not imagined
Space elevators, linear accelerators and contra-rotating carousels, worked out by an author who studied aeronautics and ship science.
02 · The people
Hundreds, far from home
Half a year in each other's company, and the human frailties that doomed the missions before them.
03 · The threat
A hunt on Earth
A fundamentalist preacher who believes mankind should never leave the Earth, and the search to find him in time.
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Published by UK Publishing House
From the mission log
04The journey
Earth, where it begins. Mars, where it is going. And the danger that follows it all the way.
Where it begins
A carbon-nanotube thread fifty thousand kilometres long climbs from a ground station on the equator to a counterweight beyond geostationary orbit. From Easter Island, mission control watches every step.
Where it is going
From the edge of the Hellas Basin, rover crews push out across the planet: the South Pole, Valles Marineris, the Face of Mars at Cydonia, and the slopes of Olympus Mons.
What follows it
Not every danger lies in space. A preacher known as the Prophet believes mankind was never meant to leave the Earth, and his followers will go to almost any length to see PEGASUS fail.
