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The Last Ascent
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 4 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Humanity has one chance to survive-and it may be the most dangerous idea ever imagined.
When the massive asteroid Aetheron is discovered on a collision course with Earth, scientists predict an extinction-level impact. Panic spreads across the globe as governments, researchers, and ordinary families confront the unthinkable: life on Earth may be running out of time.
Then visionary astrophysicist Galen Michaels proposes a plan so bold it seems impossible. Instead of destroying Aetheron, humanity will attempt to capture it and transform the asteroid into the anchor for the world's first space elevator-a gateway that could lift civilization beyond Earth and open a path to the stars.
But the closer the mission comes to success, the higher the cost becomes.
As political pressure mounts, loyalties fracture, and the fate of the planet hangs in the balance, Galen and his crew must risk everything on a mission where one mistake could doom the human race. Sacrifices will be made. Secrets will surface. And Aetheron may become either humanity's salvation-or the final force that ends it.
The Last Ascent is a gripping near-future science fiction adventure about ambition, sacrifice, survival, and the dangerous hope that humanity can rise beyond its own extinction.
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