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Miriam Weeks is an 18-year-old college student attending Duke University. She is also Belle Knox, America's newest top adult-film actress, and she uses her income as a porn star to pay her tuition. This is her story.

CHUTZPAH vividly illustrates the inanity and irony of Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign, while casting a spotlight on the symbiotic relationship between politicians and reporters. From inside the Weiner tornado the whole world looks absurd. People who hate you hate you for typing a few lame, creepy things into your laptop. People who admire you probably shouldn't. Everyone is a menace, a fool or a jackass, like a mosquito. You've got ten-thousand mosquitoes swirling around you, and you loathe all of them, and you need them, and they think you're a pervert, but you might be good for New York because of your ideas book, which isn't bad.

Three volunteers are on the shortlist to be among four people on the Mars One programme, the first manned space flight to Mars - a one-way trip that's effectively a suicide mission. A physics student in the UK, a young doctor from Mozambique and an Iraqi-American woman, all happy to sacrifice their futures for a place in history. Why do they want to leave Earth, and who are they leaving behind?