The Midas RainA science-fiction heist thriller
Gary, Indiana. 2080. A meteor made of solid gold is heading for Earth. Paul joins the crew planning to intercept it.
Gary, Indiana · 2080
Space mining has made fortunes for Astraxx. Gary gets the fallout.
Iron ore drops from the sky. Rockets rise through poisoned air. When a payload misses its landing zone, it can smash through the homes beyond the fence.
The company takes its metal. The people left behind live with the damage.
Firefighter. Hijacker. Idealist.
Paul joined the Fire Department to help. He started stealing because helping never paid enough.
Now a failed robbery has left him deep in debt, and his girlfriend Zelda is in the hands of a crime boss known as the Bully.
The gold could buy them a way out. But Paul still wants to change the world—and he’s becoming dangerously willing to do whatever that takes.
The biggest heist in history
The Bully has trucks, guns and a crew. Zelda can divert the incoming meteor. Paul’s Fire Control access can help seal off the landing zone.
Everyone has a part to play. Everyone expects a fortune.
But the company knows someone will try to steal its gold. And a crew brought together by greed has plenty of reasons to fall apart.
The screen proposition
Gary, Indiana, 2080: firefighter and part-time hijacker Paul is recruited for the impossible score—a space-mined meteor made of solid gold and worth trillions—but stealing a fortune literally falling from the sky means betraying the system he works for and trusting criminals he shouldn’t.
For film and television
The target is arriving from space. Stealing it means controlling where it falls—and getting away with a payload too heavy for one truck.
Paul’s desire to help people sits beside his capacity for manipulation and violence. His conscience drives the danger.
A poisoned industrial city gives the spectacle a human cost: ordinary neighborhoods beneath extraordinary wealth.
Corporate power, a ruthless crew and Paul’s private ambitions turn the robbery into a struggle over who deserves the gold.
The novella
Solid gold. More gold than anyone’s ever seen. And it’s hurtling through space toward Gary, Indiana.
Enter Adam Roberts’s world of desperate thieves, corporate fortunes and a score that could change everything.
About the author
Adam Roberts is a three-time Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee and winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
His novels include Salt, Gradisil and Yellow Blue Tibia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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