The Martian Race
10 best books like The Martian Race (Gregory Benford): Voyage, Moving Mars, Rainbow Mars, Saturn Rukh, Cradle of Saturn, Mars Crossing, Moonfall, Return to Mars, Icehenge, The Turing Option
Author | Stephen Baxter |
ISBN | 0061057088 |
The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses...
Author | Greg Bear |
ISBN | 0765318237 |
Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of the...
Author | Larry Niven |
ISBN | 3404242904 |
Ein neuer Auftrag für Hanville Svetz: Er soll herausfinden, warum die Marskanäle ausgetrocknet sind und was dies für die Zukunft der Erde bedeutet. Denn der Mars war einmal bewohnt. Als Svetz erfährt, wie die intelligenten Marsianer ausgelöscht wurden, wird ihm klar, dass die Erde bald einem...
Author | Robert L. Forward |
ISBN | 0812534581 |
If there were a science-fiction university, Robert L. Forward would be the dean of the Xenobiology Department. As he deals with alien beings in a heavy gravity environment for Dragon’s Egg, he now deals in Saturn Rukh with creatures that float through gaseous clouds in the same way that whales and...
Author | James P. Hogan |
ISBN | 0671578669 |
"THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!"
Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions...
Author | Geoffrey A. Landis |
ISBN | 0812576489 |
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.
With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from...
Author | Jack McDevitt |
ISBN | 0061051128 |
It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below,...
Author | Ben Bova |
ISBN | 0380797259 |
Six years after the first manned Martian expedition, a second has been announced -- one motivated purely by its profitable potential -- and half-Navajo, half-Anglo geologist Jamie Waterman's conflicted soul is beckoning him back to the eerie, unforgiving planet. As commander of the new exploratory...
Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
ISBN | 0312866097 |
On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth's Stonehenge--but ten times the size, standing alone at the farthest reaches of the Solar System. What is it? Who came there to build it?
The secret lies, perhaps, in the chaotic...
Author | Harry Harrison |
ISBN | 0446364967 |
Muy buena novela de ciencia ficción hard. Está escrita en el estilo de la época, principios de 1990. El núcleo de la narración es verosímil en términos científicos, aunque no se haya concretado históricamente todavía. Por eso es ciencia ficción y no del género fantasía, muy próximo....