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Recently a scientist wrote a book about a dead civilization on mars.

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Issak Asimov wrote "The Martian Chronicals" and H. G. Wells wrote "War of the Worlds". Recently a scientist has written a book about a dead civilization on mars. This fictional book was about the discovery of a Martian civilization destroyed by a hugh asteroid strike. The book serves two purposes. One it is a heads up as to what can happen on earth if we are hit with a big enough asteroid and two it was written to foster interest in Mars exploration.

Ok does anyone know the name of this book? I lost the link and I can't recall the authors name.
 
Looks interesting. Hold placed at my local library. Thanks for bringing this one up, Cain/Bob!
 
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Ben Bova before. looks like he's written some intriguing books in recent years. He might provide me with my annual on-call-during-Christmas-vacation-when-nothing-is-happening-at-work book
 
madurobob said:
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Ben Bova before. looks like he's written some intriguing books in recent years. He might provide me with my annual on-call-during-Christmas-vacation-when-nothing-is-happening-at-work book
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Ben Bova writes a lot of hard sci-fi. His book "Mars" is a great tale of what the first expedition might really be like, with a focus on the psychological interaction among the crew. He also wrote similar hard sci-fi about "Mercury", "Venus", "Jupiter", "Saturn", and "Titan".
 
Rodger Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" Is a great short story with the dying martian civilization theme.
 
NobbyNobbs said:
Ben Bova writes a lot of hard sci-fi. His book "Mars" is a great tale of what the first expedition might really be like, with a focus on the psychological interaction among the crew. He also wrote similar hard sci-fi about "Mercury", "Venus", "Jupiter", "Saturn", and "Titan".
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Ben Bova's books are a great read. He worked with Carl Sagon
 
Ben Bova has also written non-fiction. His book The Story Of Light is one of the most unreadable pieces of science writing I've seen outside a textbook. I picked it up at Academic Remainders.
 
No thread on Martian books (or, indeed, books about Mars) would be complete without a nod to Ray Bradbury and The Martian Chronicles.
 
The best Martians are those of Olaf Stapledon's First and Last Men. They are single-celled organisms which have some kind of hive-mind, and they write down all their history and knowledge in large books which they keep in stone temples. Regardless of how and why they would do that, the best thing about the story is that this has absolutely no influence on the story, as none of the Men (as far as I can recall) ever visit Mars. The author thus describe an incomprehensible action taken by Martians unnecessarily, which is totally unimportant for the story. Wonderful.
 
If you like Bova, you may like Allen Steele as well. Orbital Decay, Rude Astronauts etc. Basically, construction workers in space. Sort of updated "Delilah and the Spacerigger" from Heinlein's "Green Hills of Earth".
 
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