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21) Pandora's star
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When the arrival of human colonists in a faraway system unleashes a race of aliens formerly imprisoned within a giant force field, the aliens, having fought for centuries over scarce resources, turn to human space to fulfill their wants.
22) Martians abroad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent from Mars Colony to Earth's Galileo Academy, Polly, seventeen, fears she will never become a starship pilot but, with her twin brother, Charles, she may find the truth behind dangerous coincidences surrounding their classmates.
23) Morning star
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart...
24) Moving Mars
Author
Series
[Queen of angels] volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
In this Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.
26) Red planet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marking the first appearance of the Martian elder race that plays such a prominent role in Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein's iconic Red Planet tells the story of Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton's journey to the Lowe Academy boarding school on Mars, and the discoveries they make there that impact the future of their entire colony"--Back cover
27) Red lightning
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The son of one of the first explorers of Mars, Ray Garcia-Strickland is tired of the overdevelopment and tourists there, and when Earth is struck by a mysterious object, he is forced to return to Earth to help solve the mystery.
28) Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Geologist Jamie Waterman is a last-minute replacement on the first international Mars landing team. He endures training rigors, personality conflicts, political intrigues, and over 100 million kilometers travel in space. The crew battle an alien landscape and earthbound bureaucrats. Heading toward a chasm over 10 times the Arizona Grand Canyon, they make a shocking find.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six months ago, Mars Patel boarded a spaceship to travel to Oliver Pruitt's colony on the planet Mars, and now he's finally there. The journey gave Mars lots of time to bond with his copilots, but Mars and his new friends soon discover that Pruitt's colonists aren't the only people living on the inhospitable planet. A splinter group, led by the mysterious Fang, are desperate to go back to Earth--and they don't care who they hurt in the process. Amid...
Author
Series
Mars novels volume 7
Publisher
Nu Vision
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Tan Handron from the realm of Gatho encounters a wide range of enemies in this science fiction thriller of the 1930's. He fends off green men, mad scientists, cannibals, spiders and white apes.
Author
Series
Mars novels volume 6
Publisher
Palmera Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Paxton, renamed Vad Varo, is trained as Ras's assistant but soon Vad doubts his benefactor's integrity. When the kidnapped princess Valla's body is given to an evil queen, Vad must restore the princess to her rightful body.
Author
Series
Ricky Ricotta's mighty robot volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A small mouse and his best friend, a giant flying robot, attempt to save the Earth when an evil Martian monkey and his mechanical creations attack.
Author
Series
Mars novels volume 4
Publisher
Palmera Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Carthoris's sabotaged flier goes down in an unexplored region of Barsoom. Carthoris is forced to travel through ancient ruins to find Thuvia, kidnapped by yet another rival prince. They are helped by the Lotharians, but the enemy of thy enemy isn't always a friend.
36) The gods of Mars
Author
Series
Mars novels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[1963].
Language
English
Description
Carter returns to Barsoom after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
37) Earth to Dad
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After Astra Primm arrives at Minnesota's Base Ripley, eleven-year-old Jameson O'Malley begins to discover that people are hiding plenty from him about his father and the Mars colony where he lives, and about the strain between Jameson's parents.
38) The lion of Mars
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mars is our closest neighbor, and a little robot named Curiosity is investigating the planet for us. Join for a tour of the place this rover calls home. Get to know Mars through eye-catching illustrations of an alien landscape and the adorable robot in charge of exploring it all. And this rover's birthday is a perfect time to celebrate curiosity.
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