ASIN: B00PNKA74Q
Publisher: T.F. Birch
Pages: 234
Monkey Steals Plum is part one of 'The Feng Trilogy': establishing the obsessions of "Feng", a secretive, single-minded billionaire focused on the potentially limitless prize of asteroid mining until his compromising past looms.The novella is a contemporary read for the adult market that twists genres: literary and 'near future' sci-fi.The confident characterisation drives a storyline concerned with two current, real world, scientific breakthroughs: (i) the cutting edge space engineering and exploration that is 'asteroid mining', and (ii) the next generation, so-called wonder material, 'graphene'.China provides several key settings - alongside Space, and Manchester (UK). China is the mother land of the book's protagonist, Feng... Book Description (Back Matter): "An asteroid races through the shadow of Mars. It is trailed by a small, unmanned spacecraft carrying the insignia, ‘Feng Space ...
