Visit the world as it might exist a century in the future. A world where high speed maglev trains travel between cities, rocket-liners carry passengers from San Francisco to London in an hour ,giant ion powered space ships travel between planets and civilization has spread throughout the solar system. This is the setting for a story that takes the reader from a sleepy college town in northern California to London, to Oxford, to Ecuador and then up the largest structure ever built: the colossal ribbon to the sky. The reader will stay in a luxury hotel perched over 35,000 kilometers above the Earth and then travel still farther to board the huge space ship that will take them on a breakneck journey to Venus and eventually on to what turns out to be an asteroid with a secret.If you like mystery, adventure, romance, suspense and intrigue, set in a plausible and bright future, this book is for you.