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A down home tale of a failed astronaut whose life is rotting away in the Florida swamps along with his savant relative Jubal. He crosses paths with a group of teens about to make serious choices with their future lives and careers, who still look up to him for his past accomplishments. Then Jubal reveals a game-changing discovery that gives everyone some new choices.

Varley's character driven story depends on a classic 'single point suspension of disbelief' regarding new technology. The logline could be: Good old boys go to Mars. Along the way you get an appreciation for how much energy is needed for space travel, and how, if you had a more or less limitless source, some things about space travel would be easier and... different.