A cast of varied characters and Ben Elton pokes fun at their quirks and foibles, rich and poor alike. In fact, he could be Australian for his ability to take the mickey out of people. A far-fetched tale of conspiracy amongst billionaires planning on escaping Earth in its death throes to establish a colony on the moon.
The shortsightedness of the plan is breathtaking as is its scope. The ludicrousness of it is balanced by embedded grains of truth. It's ridiculous, yet it is serious.
As always, I'm impressed by Ben Elton's ability to provide pithy social comment in a coat of fiction. ( )

Rich people pissing off plot.

Given it is Ben Elton, it is not going to be completely serious.

However, with this plot of the world's filthy rich building a habitat so that they can escape the terrestrial pollution he is of course commenting on what is going on, or what was going on at the time.

Definitely funny at times, despite that.

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A ludicrous plot line with the worlds billionaires building a secret space launch station in the Australian desert to enable them and their wives/ girlfriends to escape Earth side pollution and found a colony on the moon!!
At least the characters are very good making an entertaining read.
Things get really serious when billionaire Tyron's uninvited mother turns up for the trip while they are being attacked by a man on a camel.

The pollution and damage we have done to the earth is taking its toll in a dramatic way. As the earth dies, and the world's richest men add the final touches to their conspiracy, a ragtag bunch stumbles onto their plan and tries to stop them before it's too late. This was a very interesting book, quite different to the other Ben Elton I have read, funny at times but also rather depressing. ( )

Another good book from Ben this one tends to meander alittle but apart from that is't ok ( )