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While When the Wind Blows and The Lake House focused more on characterization, suspense, and the moral implications of genetic engineering, the "Maximum Ride" series was a science fiction adventure. Patterson included a foreword to the first Maximum Ride book explaining that it took place in a different continuity and the similarities were ...
When Mars appeared to pass close by two faint stars with no effect on their brightness, Herschel correctly concluded that this meant that there was little atmosphere around Mars to interfere with their light. [3] Honore Flaugergues's 1809 discovery of "yellow clouds" on the surface of Mars is the first known observation of Martian dust storms. [4]
In 2006, almost 30 years after von Braun’s death, Apogee Books (Canada) published White’s translation as Project Mars: A Technical Tale. As of 2025, the original German text remains unpublished. Set in the 1980s, the novel describes the first human mission to Mars and its encounter with benevolent Martians there.
The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). The Martians (1999) is a collection of short stories set in the same fictional universe. Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994.
Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown.It is the first book and eponym of the series. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds.
The Sands of Mars (also titled Sands of Mars) is a science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. While he was already popular as a short story writer and as a magazine contributor, The Sands of Mars was also a prelude to Clarke's becoming one of the world's foremost writers of science fiction novels. The story was published in 1951 ...
The basis for the popular show 'Virgin River' actually consists of 21 books, with stories that go way beyond the Mel and Jack we know and love.
There she hands the wings over to the flyer Dorrel. Maris intends to have Dorrel call a "flyer's council" — a rare meeting of nearly all of Windhaven's flyers — in order to prove that she deserves the right to wear the wings. However, a flyer arrives and notifies Dorrel that Corm has already called for a council to be held.