John Martin Dunn

Venus John Martin Dunn

The desperate attempt to re-engineer and colonise another planet within our Solar System to enable the rescue of an Earth society that has disintegrated into rigidly segregated areas of rich and poor due to the disastrous collapse of all financial institutions. A few short decades from now, society on Earth disintegrates, resulting in a stark division between those who have financial wealth and security and those living in desperate poverty within wasteland settlements. An enigmatic multi billionaire head of a Space Station re-supply company embarks on a project to address the acute social problems by colonising another planet. He commissions an epic earth-moving project to re-engineer a planet within our Solar System and then to physically re-locate it to a new orbit close to Earth by deliberately striking it with Asteroids that are towed out of their orbits by rockets to drive it into a new orbital path and then to alter the hostile environment by seeding the atmosphere with ice- comets which contain water and essential nutrients locked within the frozen ice. The slowly melting ice release their cocktail of minerals in a life giving rain that begins the transformation of the atmosphere and environment of the planet such that it can sustain and be survivable for plants, animals and mankind. The planet selected for relocation is Venus but who, or what, is Avalon, the mysterious all-powerful character who soon takes control of the project, causing panic within governments on Earth. They react as all governments do that perceive a threat and set out to isolate and destroy him.