CJ Shifflett is 29 years old, unemployed, and living in his mother's basement. He has a BA in Philosophy from a 2nd-tier state university. When his great-grandmother dies, they go to her funeral at their estranged family's historic mansion in Richmond. There, Chance discovers a legacy left for him -- the secret of his Civil War-era ancestor's adventures on the planet Mars, and a way to get there!For a skinny, weak, bookish young man to land on a planet...