The Mandate of Earth

By J.S. Harbour

Jack Seerva, billionaire entrepreneur, has a lifelong dream to industrialize the solar system, to get humanity into space where resources abound, and eliminate the strain on the ecosystem and environment-perhaps even eliminate war. After decades of hard work, he has built a corporate empire-the infrastructure to branch out into space. His dream finally seems within reach.Then the unthinkable happens-a comet impact craters an American city, a disaster that might very well have been the Extinction Event. Jack is convinced that he has a calling-a mandate-to preserve Earth's greatest achievement: human civilization. Seerva invests in promising startups and develops cutting-edge technologies. Quadrillions of metric tons of ores are just waiting to be mined. He intends to show them the way, to bootstrap humanity into space, where even one large asteroid has more ore than all the mines on Earth.But, Seerva's unwillingness to play by the rules draws the attention of rivals in government and industry, who are still driven by greed and power. Even with the promise of a golden age of prosperity, they would stop him to bolster their own plans. But, Seerva has no intention of playing their game. As a new manned mission heads far from Earth, a terrible new threat is revealed. It's not a question of whether the human race has a bright future ahead, but whether humanity has a future at all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150898705X
• ISBN13: 9781508987055
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"