Life and Death on Mars

The Space Race of the Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, had been nail—biting—until the Soviet Union forfeited.

In the thirties—amid a second Cold War—China is not about to lose the race to Mars. Nor is the United States. Nor, quite the wildcard, is a secretive cabal drawn from among the world's multi—billionaires. All of them are scrambling to launch deep—space missions on a schedule that makes the Sixties contest appea...