The Diamond Rush
“Amazing!”
“Well-crafted.”
FIRST PUBLISHED: 2012
200 years after The Gold Rush, an even more valuable discovery sends the world into a frenzy...
READ THIS IF YOU LIKE:
• Underdog stories
• Books about space adventure
• Sci Fi space adventure books with
zero regard for scientific accuracy
• Male anti-heroes over 50
WHAT’S THE STORY:
It’s 2041. And the race to reach the biggest dangling carat in history is on.
In an age where technological advances have brought space flight within the reach of all bar the very poorest of society, leaked news of the discovery of an asteroid made of diamond sends the world into a frenzy, the like of which the planet hasn’t seen since the California Gold Rush some two centuries previously.
Despite his best efforts to keep news of the discovery secret, head of the Space Exploration Council (NASA’s successor), Errol Haygue, is forced to travel to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to oversee the harvesting of the asteroid’s priceless deposits.
Meanwhile, diamond barons in South Africa are busy hatching plans to ensure not a single carat of alien sparkling rock makes it back to Earth to threaten their lucrative business.Stuck in the middle are hundreds of private individuals racing to the belt aboard self-funded and fueled ships with dreams of fame and fortune.
Among them, Simon Remnant, a no-good divorced father of one who’s one of the very poorest of society - and to prove it, he has been wasting his life getting wasted in London.
That all changes when news of the asteroid discovery spurs him into action.
Will he and his crew of ill-matched astronautical novices survive the journey to the belt, grab a life-changing share of the loot and make it back to Earth before Haygue, the diamond barons and the crew's inexperience cause their mission to end in disaster?
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The Diamond Rush
“Amazing!”
“Well-crafted.”
FIRST PUBLISHED: 2012
200 years after The Gold Rush, an even more valuable discovery sends the world into a frenzy...
READ THIS IF YOU LIKE:
• Underdog stories
• Books about space adventure
• Sci Fi space adventure books with
zero regard for scientific accuracy
• Male anti-heroes over 50
WHAT’S THE STORY:
It’s 2041. And the race to reach the biggest dangling carat in history is on.
In an age where technological advances have brought space flight within the reach of all bar the very poorest of society, leaked news of the discovery of an asteroid made of diamond sends the world into a frenzy, the like of which the planet hasn’t seen since the California Gold Rush some two centuries previously.
Despite his best efforts to keep news of the discovery secret, head of the Space Exploration Council (NASA’s successor), Errol Haygue, is forced to travel to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to oversee the harvesting of the asteroid’s priceless deposits.
Meanwhile, diamond barons in South Africa are busy hatching plans to ensure not a single carat of alien sparkling rock makes it back to Earth to threaten their lucrative business.Stuck in the middle are hundreds of private individuals racing to the belt aboard self-funded and fueled ships with dreams of fame and fortune.
Among them, Simon Remnant, a no-good divorced father of one who’s one of the very poorest of society - and to prove it, he has been wasting his life getting wasted in London.
That all changes when news of the asteroid discovery spurs him into action.
Will he and his crew of ill-matched astronautical novices survive the journey to the belt, grab a life-changing share of the loot and make it back to Earth before Haygue, the diamond barons and the crew's inexperience cause their mission to end in disaster?