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In the highly anticipated new novel by John Varley, "one of the genre's most accomplished storytellers" ("Publishers Weekly"), a manned mission to Mars becomes a personal mission for an unlikely bunch of astronauts: seven suburban misfits who have constructed a spaceship built out of old tanker cars and held together with all-American ambition. They call her Red Thunder. They plan to be the first people on the Red Planet...despite China's big head start. If it didn't sound so crazy, it would be history in the making... Enter Series Index : 01 of 04 Calc Series Group : Thunder and Lightning Calc Series A(Group): Thunder and Lightning Test Search : Red Thunder / John Varley Test Compare Series to Entered: eq ES Cover Quality : ICBF ES Suffix : _ Quick Search : John Varley Thunder and Lightning ABook : E_Only Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:0441011624, ff:v/john-varley/red-thunder, goodreads:2374666, google:-4srAAAAYAAJ, isbn:9780441010158 Test Text Series Index: 1 Single Author : John Varley Raw Title : Red Thunder Compare Author : eq Sorted Author by LN, FN: Varley, John ES Group : Serified_E Title Length : 11 Title Parm A : Red Thunder Calc ESI Combined : 01 of 190 Formats : EPUB Error Type : Retest Record ID : 1118 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_E.Thunder and Lightning.Scifan.01 of 04._.ICBF ES Name : Thunder and Lightning EBook : Have Custom Series : SIPW.Thunder and Lightning.Scifan.1._.ICBF Uncomma Author : John Varley Number of Words in Auth: 2 ES Genre : Scifan Calc New Series : Thunder and Lightning.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 04 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 01 Num of Aut : 1

seven Suburban Misfits Are Constructing A Spaceship Out Of Old Tanker Cars. The Plan Is To Beat The Chinese To Mars—in Under Four Days At Three Million Miles An Hour. It Would Be History In The Making If It Didn't Sound So Insane.

the Washington Post

varley's Great Strength Is In His Characterizations, But In Red Thunder He Also Shows A Strong Sense Of Place. He's Clearly In Love With Florida And The Many Quirky And Eccentric People Who Live There. As A Result, red Thunder Is A Realistic -- And Funny -- Novel That Happens To Be Set In The Future. The Novel Is Also In A Sense An Elegy: Sf Readers Have Long Hoped To Travel In Outer Space, And Varley Implies That This Will Be Possible Only If We Discover Something Radically Different From Anything Now Known To Physicists. But If You Are Willing To Simply Fantasize About Fleeing Your Office Cubicle And Becoming A Heroic Space Explorer, This Novel Will Amiably Fulfill Your Wishes. — martin Morse Wooster

"The U.S. space program is effectively over. The loss of the Ares Seven ship was the final blow. Everyone has accepted that the manned Chinese ship, Heavenly Harmony, being prepped for a mission to Mars, will be the first vessel from Earth to land on the Red Planet." "Almost everyone." "In a deserted warehouse near Daytona, a band of seven suburban misfits - including a Cajun boy genius and a disgraced captain drummed out of NASA - is constructing a spaceship, built out of old tanker cars and held together with determination, guts, and all-American ambition. They call her Red Thunder, and they plan not only to beat the Chinese to Mars, but to rescue everyone aboard the marooned Ares Seven as well. What's more, they've geared their beautiful beast to make the trip in just under four days - that's over three million miles an hour. It would sound like history in the making if it didn't sound so insane. Is it possible?" "Anything's possible."--BOOK JACKET An Unlikely Group Of Seven Suburban Misfits Band Together To Construct A Spaceship Built Out Of Old Tanker Cars That They Call Red Thunder, Determined To Beat The Chinese In A Race To Become The First Humans To Set Foot On Mars. John Varley. "An unlikely group of seven suburban misfits band together to construct a spaceship built out of old tanker cars that they call Red Thunder, determined to beat the Chinese in a race to become the first humans to set foot on Mars"--NoveList.