Encounter with Tiber
It is a chronicle of two grand quests, two dynasties of heroes. A new space race is sparked by a bitter feud between scientist-astronaut Chris Terence and visionary entrepreneur Sig Jarlsbourg: two enemies determined to claim the frontier blazed by the Apollo pioneers. But a radio beacon from deep space, from a world called Tiber, will bring both men together - and lead one to his doom. Solving the Tiberian mystery becomes a legacy, driving Chris's son and Jarlsbourg's heir, Jason Terence, to found the first city on Mars, and leading their descendants beyond the confines of the solar system. Encounter with Tiber is the saga of another family as well. Its heroes were brave, desperate, ancient beings who learned all too well the precious fragility of lives and worlds. Beings who did indeed come to our ancestors in chariots of fire - and who proved to be anything but gods...
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What Hacker News says
- Exactly as described in Buzz Aldrin's book Encounter with Tiber. Very very good yarn about humanity's effort to walk between the stars using knowledge left behind by visitors, culminating with the first human to set foot on a non human world.
- His sci-fi book "Encounter with Tiber" was pretty neat. Loved it, and it had me hooked the whole time.
Michael Collins "Carrying the fire" was also a very good book. Collins is a great writer with a great subject.
- Buzz Aldrin cowrote a novel called "Encounter with Tiber" about the discovery of alien artifacts leading to the first colonies on mars. 11 year old me loved it, FWIW
- Sounds a lot like Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin, only it used a long drogue wire to brake electrostatically. It was only a book, but these details felt realistic enough.
- _Encounter_with_Tiber_ by Aldrin and Barnes used such a premise, except the habitable alien world was a tidally locked moon around a gas giant.
