The Merchant of Mars: Screenplay Edition

By Ronald Pisaturo

The head of NASA convinces the President that space exploration should be done by private industry, and the United States government declares, "The first person to land on Mars, live there a year, and return alive owns the whole Red Planet." Capitalists compete to win the greatest race in history. Environmentalists plot to make them all fail.This book is in screenplay format. The screenplay was represented by a prestigious Hollywood literary agency years ago, but was shelved. The heroes are patriotic American capitalists who want to exploit Mars as private property; the villains are environmentalists, aided by the Communist Chinese government, who want to 'save' the planet-Mars, that is. The book contains no foul language and no sexual or violent content beyond what you would see in a mainstream, romantic, family-oriented, action-adventure Hollywood studio film from the 1950s.The story is realistic science fiction, and all the technology is considered realizable within the next generation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692987258
• ISBN13: 9780692987254
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Ronald Pisaturo
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"