nacnud - 3/10/2006 6:20 PMHeres a few worth checking out.Stephen Baxter - Voyage is supposed to be a good might have been if the Apollo program had been continued rather than the Shuttle. Titan is similar but uses shuttle era tech.Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars is more speculative but a good read.Charles Stross - Accelerando is a new take on the cyber punk novel.Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space is more of a far future space opera novel but I'll add it in here as it is what I am currently reading.
MATTBLAK - 4/10/2006 5:34 AMCoincidentally, I'm re-reading Stephen Baxter's "Voyage" now. It is a very moving book and you really feel like you've been into space after reading it. Also, I felt a little sad that America's space program didn't follow a similar course to the one portrayed in the novel. America would have had Astronauts on Mars in the mid-1980s if this timeline and mission design had been followed, but with other technological and geopolitical consequences."Titan" is a powerful novel, though a depressing one at times and with some baffling choices by Baxter in both the story and style. But it's main virtue is that you feel you've been taken somewhere; on a real voyage of discovery to an alien world, in this case, Titan.
Marooned by Martin Caiden (both the mercury and apollo versions)
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Quote from: mike robel on 01/06/2009 11:41 pmMarooned by Martin Caiden (both the mercury and apollo versions)Any idea where I could get a copy of the Mercury version?
I have two:Marooned by Martin Caiden (both the mercury and apollo versions)Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Yes, "Voyage" by Stephen Baxter is one of my very favourites -- it literally moved me to *tears* at the future that was lost to us. But at least Baxter also makes us ask whether or not it would have been worth sacrificing all else in space history for just one Mars shot? I also thought his "Titan" (released 1997) was powerful and brilliant but depressing too -- many of the things portrayed in it have come true, including the loss of 'Columbia', and the rise of extremist religion, politics, terrorism and an increasingly weird world.