Tag: mars

It’s not unknown for science fiction programming to have an educational aspect: the early seasons of Doctor Who were intended to alternate between stories set in the future

A prolific and highly regarded author of science fiction novels whose output over four decades has earned him sufficient awards to fill several mantelpieces if not a cabinet,

Life is hard but predictable for Lora Robinson, fifteen years old as measured by the old calendar and soon to turn sixteen, but she has grown up on

The stage is bathed in soft light and ethereal choral music; one side is dominated by a diorama of the surface of Mars with a habitation, the other

Recounting the aftermath of the accidental abandonment of astronaut Mark Watney on the surface of Mars when a severe dust storm forced the Ares 3 expedition to abandon

If there is a constant motif that runs through the work of Alastair Reynolds, it is one of decay, of an age running out, as in the melding