Dan Randolph has made a fortune mining the asteroids, but as Earth slides toward climate catastrophe he proposes something far bigger: moving heavy industry off-world entirely to save the planet. The plan puts him on a collision course with the Global Economic Council, whose own vision for humanity's future has no room for a maverick entrepreneur rewriting the rules. An early entry in Ben Bova's Grand Tour, where solving space becomes inseparable from solving Earth.
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- The Grand Tour — #2