Mercury

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Mercury

Science fiction: space opera

Author: Ben Bova

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Language: English

Published by: Hodderscape

Published on: 15th August 2005

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781444723588


Mercury: The Closest Planet to the Sun

The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is an airless, heat-scorched world where temperatures rise to four times higher than the boiling point of water. But this vision of hell is also a planet with unlimited solar power - worth a fortune to the space tycoon Saito Yamagata if he can find a way to harness it.

He has hired the enigmatic Dante Alexios to establish a research station on the surface of the planet and find a way to turn that solar energy into portable power satellites. But Yamagata is secretly also preparing the way to a very different dream: he wants to travel to the stars themselves.

And Alexios has his own obsession, a plot to lure an old enemy to this hellhole of a world and take his revenge for one of the worst disasters in human history.

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