Venus

by John Dunn

A hundred years from now...life on Earth has degenerated into a stark division between people who have financial wealth and security and those living in desperate poverty within wasteland settlements.George Armstrong, multi billionaire head of a Space Station re-supply corporation embarks on a project to address these acute social problems by colonizing another planet.He embarks on a literally epic earth-moving project to re-engineer a planet within our solar System and to physically re-locate it to a new orbit close to Earth by deliberately striking it with asteroids. Then to alter the hostile environment so that it can sustain and be survivable for mankind.The planet selected for relocation is Venus.

323 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2010

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Reviews

[Chris Bullock · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story line was interesting and quite enthralling.
However it was seriously marred by missed out words, duplicated words, poor grammar, and particularly a significant lack of punctuation. I was frustrated and confused by very long sentences (many over 70 words) with no commas, which resulted in losing the meaning intended. Also, the chapters expounding the political viewpoint of the story were decidedly confusing, and I found the ending too short and limiting.
Nevertheless, the novel had sufficient merit to keep me interested until the end, but it would really benefit from a proof-read rewrite.