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Ishtar Rising Book 1

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Overview

Project Ishtar -- a bold endeavor to terraform Venus, the most volatile planet in the solar system, and the grandest achievement in the spectacular career of famed terraformer Dr. Pascal Saadya. But when Saadya hits a snag in the project, he calls upon his old friend, Captain David Gold of the U.S.S. da Vinc

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Bio of Michael A. Martin

Michael A. Martin's solo short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also coauthored (with Andy Mangels) several Star Trek comics for Marvel and Wildstorm and numerous Star Trek novels and eBooks, including the USA Today bestseller Titan: Book One: Taking Wing; Titan: Book Two: The Red King; the Sy Fy Genre Award-winning Star Trek: Worlds of Deep Space 9 Book Two: Trill -- Unjoined; Star Trek: The Lost Era 2298 -- The Sundered; Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Mission: Gamma: Vol. Three: Cathedral; Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31 -- Rogue; Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #30 and #31 ("Ishtar Rising" Books 1 and 2); stories in the Prophecy and Change, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table anthologies; and three novels based on the Roswell television series. His work has also been published by Atlas Editions (in their Star Trek Universe subscription card series), Star Trek Monthly, Dreamwatch, Grolier Books, Visible Ink Press, The Oregonian, and Gareth Stevens, Inc., for whom he has penned several World Almanac Library of the States nonfiction books for young readers. He lives with his wife, Jenny, and their two sons in Portland, Oregon.

Bio of Andy Mangels

Andy Mangels is the USA Today bestselling author and coauthor of over a dozen novels -- including Star Trek and Roswell books -- all cowritten with Michael A. Martin. Flying solo, he is the bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Characters and Animation on DVD: The Ultimate Guide, as well as a significant number of entries for The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes as well as for its companion volume, The Supervillain Book.

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9780743476058

Excerpt from: Ishtar Rising Book 1 by Michael A. Martin

Chapter 1

Thirty-nine Days Ago

This place is the closest I've ever come to hell.

Dr. Pascal Saadya gazed through the viewport at the heat-distorted vista that lay before him. The terrain was typical of Venus: Fractured rock surfaces flattened by the ninety-bar atmosphere stretched toward the walls of a steep canyon whose details grew indistinct with distance in the smoglike haze. He knew the lethal heat of the planet couldn't penetrate Hesperus Ground Station's reinforced duranium hull -- at least not so long as the shields remained operational. Nevertheless, tiny beads of sweat formed on his upper lip.

Venus was a terraforming challenge unlike any other. She was a deadly foe, and his body refused to be convinced otherwise.

"After spending six years overseeing Project Ishtar," said Adrienne Paulos as she inspected the instrument panel beside Saadya's, "it's hard to believe you've never been all the way down to the surface before."

Still looking out through the viewport, Saadya imagined he could feel the atmosphere of Aphrodite Terra pressing down on the ground station's structure, like the hand of some merciless god inexorably closing into a fist.

He forced the image from his mind.

"The big-picture theoretical work requires a global perspective, Adrienne," Saadya said, "and that's rather difficult to achieve down here beneath the clouds. Like trying to forecast Earth's weather from the bottom of the ocean. How are the force-field generators holding up "

"Everything in the ground network is still looking nominal," Paulos said, then turned toward the pair of Bynars who ran the computer console to her immediate left. "How do the atmospheric numbers and the probe network data look "

1011 and 1110 -- known to the predominantly human crew members of Project Ishtar as Ten-Eleven and Eleven-Ten -- spoke in their customary smooth, collaborative manner, each finishing the other's utterances.

"According to the probe data--"

"-- and our last round of chaotic atmospheric motion simulations--"

"-- the force-field generator network should succeed in lifting the bulk of the atmosphere from this valley--"

"-- all the way to the superrotational region of the cloudtops--"