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41) One way
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the small crew of ex-cons working on Mars start getting murdered, everyone is a suspect in this terrifying science fiction thriller from bona fide rocket scientist and award winning-author S.J. Morden. It's the dawn of a new era - and we're ready to colonize Mars. But the company that's been contracted to construct a new Mars base, has made promises they can't fulfill and is desperate enough to cut corners. The first thing to go is the automation...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
Author
Series
Mars novels volume 2-3
Publisher
Nelson Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971.
Edition
Book club edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A man returns to Mars in search of his wife.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A British astronomer believes that beings more highly evolved than man are alive on Mars and that there will be a perfect moment to signal to them that we are here, too. He gets support and funding for a massive project to build the Equilateral, a triangle with sides hundreds of miles long, in the desert of Egypt, in time for that perfect moment. But work progresses slowly and this project is more confusing and complex than the astronomer had imagined....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world--including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers--are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber's boyfriend of fourteen...
47) Rolling thunder
Author
Series
Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--otherwise known as Podkayne--is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That's why she's joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she's going to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll seemingly of their own volition carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian...
49) Rescue mode
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Palmer Eldritch returns from a distant galaxy with a new drug called Chew-Z, which claims to deliver eternal life. Barney Mayerson confronts questions of loyalty, judgement and love, as well as his own insecurities about his ex-wife. His addictive personality thrusts him in the middle of a mystery as to the true nature of Chew-Z and what it means for the future of the galaxy. Palmer Eldritch is omnipresent throughout the novel as the reader tries...
51) Pandora's star
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star ... vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears. Since...
Author
Series
Publisher
Purple Rose
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book contains five John Carter books: A Princess Of Mars, The Gods Of Mars, The Warlord Of Mars, Thuvia Maid Of Mars and The Chessmen Of Mars. The story begins with the Earth-man John Carter mysteriously transported to Mars where he finds himself lost in an alien world of constant warfare and alien peoples, races and species.
53) The fifth man
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
13 CDs (15 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are occurring on Mars since the Ares 10 spacecraft arrived. Astronaut Valkerie Jansen may have just discovered evidence of microbial life, but she is trapped by a cave-in. Even worse, something unseen is terrorizing Bob Kaganovski and the rest of the crew. Compounding their problems, NASA's intense scrutiny is beginning to blur the crew's focus on the mission at hand.
54) Mars probes
Series
DAW book collectors volume 1226
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
55) How to Mars
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality TV nightmare? This debut science-fiction romp with heart follows the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles with a dash of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars--in exchange for a lifetime of research--was an absolute no-brainer. The incredible opportunity was clearly worth even the...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared. So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
302 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"This volume collects ten stories about Mars from the golden age of science fiction when scientists speculated that there might once have been life on Mars. Ten authors, writing between 1880 and 1965 give us ten very different views of what life on Mars might look like, or might have once been, and might teach us about our own options as colonizers of other planets or as caretakers of our own Earth." --
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use it. But he's pretty sure the agency only keeps him around to exploit his superpower. After he bungles yet another...
59) Killing Titan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After an enforced isolation on earth, Master Sergeant Michael Venn returns to Mars to further investigate the ancient artifacts that have suddenly awakened, but is instead led to Saturn's moon, Titan, where war is brewing between the Drifters and the Gurus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in a flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby, a young woman who is perfectly content growing up in the untamed frontier. But...
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