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Rhondak101
Posted 2015-01-04 4:03 PM (#9143)
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Welcome to the 4 participants who’ve already joined, Arrenby, daxxh, Emil, and thereddeath!

The title and banner for this challenge comes from an anthology edited by Asimov, Greenberg, and Waugh. This challenge asks you to read 12 books (review 6) that are set in our solar system. My original idea was to read at least one book set on each planet (except Earth). However, my research shows that the choices are slim for the outer planets. Therefore, you may target specific planets, or moons, or read works that are set on multiple locations throughout our solar system. Obviously, you may choose any sub-genres that you like. For example, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom series are both set on Mars, but the versions of the planet are totally different. Choose the presentations that you like, that’s the science fictional part—pulps, space opera, planetary romance, hard sf, soft sf, or the juveniles of Asimov, Heinlein or the Winston series—mix and match, and just have fun. Books written by the same author are allowed. In fact, a series like Ben Bova's The Grand Tour could be fun way to take on this challenge.

 

The challenge page has a link to list of books I’ve compiled that fit the challenge, but, of course, those are only suggestions. Go and take a look.

 I am still trying to touch on as many planets and satellites as I can in my reading. Here’s my tentative list for the year:

David Brin, Sundiver—Mercury

Pamela Sargent, Venus of Dreams—Venus

Andy Weir, The Martian—Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson—Galileo’s Dream—Jupiter

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Destination Amalthea—Jupiter’s moon

Michael McCollum, The Clouds of Saturn—Saturn

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan­—Saturn’s moon

Ben Bova, As on a Darkling Plain—Titan, again

Samuel Delany, Triton—Neptune’s moon

Cecilia Holland, The Floating Worlds—Uranus and Saturn

Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge—Pluto

Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon—Earth’s moon

 

 

 

 


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