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It's the dawn of the 21st century, and America is in big trouble. Public colleges breed apathy and ignorance, and politics is just about the skill of the magic pill. There exists one female, though, who may have both the perspective and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley truck Huyten, heiress to 1 of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary called Coach Academies and commences to subcontract open public school systems to be able to raise a fresh, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is a lot larger than that: it also contains the founding of a private space program, the eventual development of an orbital power station, and the revival of know-how on Earth. Firestar is a chronicle of private business and specific initiative-the story of one woman's mission that becomes the concentrate for a whole new world. Mariesa's program allows teachers strive to educate, hires astronauts who have no authorities space program to travel for, and provides productive outlets for the idealistic wishes of the abundant and powerful-at least those who remain sane enough to possess such desires in the face of a crumbling America. And it just might work. Michael Flynn lives in Easton, Pennsylvania. He is the success of the Robert A. Heinlein Honor and was a Hugo nominee for Eifelheim.