![]() ![]() Lost Mars : stories from the golden age of the red planet Something for all tastes in these voyages of the imagination. And Richard K Morgan’s Thin Air dives into corruption and kidnapping in a vividly rendered Martian outpost. Levine is a space opera nostalgia package bedecked with regency props, political intrigue and a swashbuckling heroine. Simon Morden’s sequel to One Way continues a thrilling science fiction series that places convicts on the red planet’s surface. Chinese students can experience life on a Martian base in the Gobi desert as China prepares an orbiter and rover for the 2020 launch window.įor the rest of us, interplanetary exploration is only a page turn away, with a heady mix of nostalgia, fast-paced action, intrigue and Martian terrain that is envisioned from the lush to the inhospitably harsh. Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our Earthly hopes and fears.”įiction writers since the days of Edgar Rice Burroughs have speculated on what or who might live on Mars, and how humans might fare together or alone in a new environment. Current space-faring aspirations have inspired various nations to investigate the ‘red planet’, from the NASA Mars rover - your name could make the interplanetary voyage - to the UAE Hope probe due to launch next year. ![]()
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