TACNA, Ariz., Feb. 9, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Enjoy this new action-packed and thought-provoking tale of space as the new open wilderness mankind will explore. Journey to the Center of Mars by newly-published author Robert Wilton Dale is a captivating adventure on space exploration as well as the current philosophies of our existence.
What makes this novel striking is its highly-detailed environment of what could possibly be our future: space commerce. Mankind has now made it out to space as the new stratum of earth's sky -- star systems are colonized and minerals and other natural resources of other planets are now being competitively siphoned by large galactic factions.
The adventure starts from when a scan mining ship picks out an asteroid to dig for what valuables it may contain. The ship's crew suddenly discovers that the rock they found contains extraordinary material. What they don't know is that they are being silently monitored by a hostile group of strict union-bonded spacers already planning to attack the ship and rob the crew of their find. War between factions just a thin line from erupting has the scab crew in a complex situation; whatever move they make in the next hours can either be their last or could change mankind's space capabilities forever.
Journey to the Center of Mars is a brilliant novel that compels readers to ask the questions, "Why are we here?" and "What are we to this vast universe that embraces us so tightly?" With missions to Mars already being a reality, apprehensions on whether the fruits of such missions will open up for us better futures or more areas of conflict. As the planet Earth has already been fought over, read this adventure and see how the current behavior and thinking of man can just as well spell out what to expect in the future.
About the Author
Robert Wilton Dale is fifty-nine years young. He now resides in a small town in western Arizona, but has had the taste of your big cities. He is a "late bloomer" that is driven to just walk near, not fill, his inspirational source; the late Robert Heinlien's sizeable "Footfall's." This first of a trilogy is a hopeful attempt at reopening the vision of spaceflight as the reality and adventure that it is, and he asked that you remember: "To let your imagination become your eyes."
Journey to the Center of Mars -- by Robert Wilton Dale
Publication Date: January 11, 2006
Trade Paperback; $21.99; 227 pages; 1-4257-0262-7
Cloth Hardback; $31.99; 227 pages; 1-4257-0263-5
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