Mammon: Titan is a combination of hard science fiction near-future space exploration story and world-wide apocalyptic disaster tail that strikes all the right notes of personal, political, and economic conflict. Purchase link: The story If you can imagine an Ayn Rand plot as written by Robert Heinlein, you will get an idea of what it is like reading Titan. In the near-future, the United States is, as today, deep in debt. But by the time Titan takes place, the country is in danger of defaulting on its debts and sending its economy spiraling down the toliet. Tech-industrialist Kade Kapur has a crazy plan to save the economy that just might work: he is going to capture an enormous asteroid worth $10 trillion. Uncle Sam gets to sell shares of the profits to eager investors, and Kade will take his dream of colonizing space one step closer to reality. But when the project is sabotaged, Kade’s dreams fall apart along with the United States.
Review: Mammon Book One: Titan, by Robert Kroese
Review: Mammon Book One: Titan, by Robert…
Review: Mammon Book One: Titan, by Robert Kroese
Mammon: Titan is a combination of hard science fiction near-future space exploration story and world-wide apocalyptic disaster tail that strikes all the right notes of personal, political, and economic conflict. Purchase link: The story If you can imagine an Ayn Rand plot as written by Robert Heinlein, you will get an idea of what it is like reading Titan. In the near-future, the United States is, as today, deep in debt. But by the time Titan takes place, the country is in danger of defaulting on its debts and sending its economy spiraling down the toliet. Tech-industrialist Kade Kapur has a crazy plan to save the economy that just might work: he is going to capture an enormous asteroid worth $10 trillion. Uncle Sam gets to sell shares of the profits to eager investors, and Kade will take his dream of colonizing space one step closer to reality. But when the project is sabotaged, Kade’s dreams fall apart along with the United States.