Minor edge wear and rubbing on the dust jacket, pages clean and free of marks, BCE Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Mankind has taken its first small step outward from Earth, leaving its footprints on the moon. The next step, perhaps in the closing years of the century, will be many times longer and more perilous--the leap to Mars. The far call is a master novelist's evocation of that epic step, of the men and women who unite to make it, of the tangled web of rivalry, stubbornness, greed and indifference that threatens to prevent it, of the driving need for humanity to complete it.