I've finally decided to get off my derriere and self-publish my novel Immortelle. I had hawked the MS around a few lit agencies but we know how that kind of thing goes. Then I lost interest in it (as I tend to do with anything once I feel it is a finished product) and forgot about it for a while. But it seems a pity to let it disappear after I had put so much effort into it, so here goes.
The novel takes place in the 2040s. NASA and the ESA have financed a joint manned trip to Mars. The West isn't the focal point of world economic and military power at this point, with a rising East tempered only by the fact that China and Russia are at loggerheads. The Mars trip is a prestige mission in the same way the Moon landing was prestige mission. It's likely to be a once-off as going to Mars is far more expensive than going to the Moon. But everything changes with the arrival of 1036 Ganymed, biggest of the Amor asteroids, that is knocked off course by an object from the Kuiper belt and is now scheduled to score a bull's eye on Earth. The plan is to deflect it with nukes, but then something else arrives on the scene that changes everything, again. And with that appetite-whetter, off you go and start reading.... :-) Critiques, suggestions, etc. are welcome here. I put a good deal of research into the science (with some useful input from Andy Weir...name dropping, yeah!) as I wanted the technology to be watertight. With Google at our fingertips we have no problem picking holes in what passes for hard SF. If you're going to do it to my novel I wanted to make it a challenge for you. Have fun!
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