The Legacy of Prometheus

by Eric Kotani and John Maddox Roberts

• ISBN13: 9780765303820
• ISBN10: 0765303825
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-10-18
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

Eric Kotani is a pen name used by a world class astrophysicist. He was the head of the astrophysics laboratory at the Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab missions and has since served as director of a NASA satellite observatory for fifteen years. Kotani and John Maddox Roberts, an accomplished SF and mystery writer, join forces on Legacy of Prometheus, a thriller that tackles the biggest question the world will face in the coming century: an energy crisis. Conventional methods for harnessing power are failing, but technology is racing to tackle the problem, seeking to generate energy with solar power. When the government announces it will guarantee a market for the first company to beam a gigawatt of energy to the planet, Cash Carlson and his Lone Star Space Systems get a jump on their rivals by constructing Prometheus, the solar powered satellite. Cash eventually teams up with the beautiful young journalist, Sachi Sasano, to play a dangerous game with desperate men. And it's not just control of the world's energy market at stake. It's also their lives.

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"Each skirmish adds excitement, and the setting and technology are believable. With their fine storytelling skills and irredeemably good-guy hero, this space adventure from Kotani and Roberts will thrill even the most earthbound reader." --Publishers Weekly

"The authors have buffed up the chrome and tinted the windows to wow an audience segment more oriented to glitz and gore-and succeeded pretty well." --The San Diego Union Tribune