Coyote
A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
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- Salt, by Adam Roberts. It's a short enjoyable novel about conflict. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-GOLLANCZ-S-F-Adam-Roberts-eboo...
I'd love to see a good adaptation of Red Mars / Blue Mars / Green Mars.
I think the Coyote series by Allen Steele could be fun if done right.
- I read a lot of Science Fiction for fun. These are a few of my favorites that I've given to other people:
1. Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. When I think of epic hard science fiction, the Xeelee Sequence books spring to mind. With a story line that spans millions of years (and a few dozen books), this collection of short stories is a good introduction to one of the best and most underrated sci-fi series out there. Baxter's Manifold trilogy (Manifold: Space, Manifold: Time and Manifold: Origin) are also fantastic.
2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov. The whole Foundation series is wonderful, but this book is a landmark of sci-fi that should be on any fan's bookcase.
3. The Martian by Andy Weir. This book is what I've been giving the last couple years to people who don't think they like sci-fi. Everyone I've given it to has loved it.
4. Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Another hard sci-fi staple. The rest of the Rama books he "co-wrote" with Gentry Lee are decent but become more space opera than hard sci-fi. I enjoyed them but many sci-fi fans find them polarizing.
5. Silver Tower by Dale Brown. More of a military thriller than sci-fi (Flight of the Old Dog is another favorite of mine by him) and terribly dated by modern standards (it was written when the Soviet Union was still a thing). But it's the first "adult" sci-fi book I ever read as a kid, so it'll always have a special place for me.
EDIT: Another one:
6. Coyote by Allen Steele. I love stories like this one: primitive, longshot interstellar exploration and primitive, first generation colonization. Especially for desperate reasons. The first two Coyote books were good, but I just can't get into any of the subsequent ones.
- Allen Steele has the Coyote series, which covers some colonists settling on a planet. They're (at least one of them is, I forget if the others are) chapbooks, but that's okay.
There's some nice stuff about failure of important systems and the consequences of that for outbound travellers; food and shelter; exploration; law and order; and eco disaster. I enjoyed reading them. I wasn't a fan of the audiobooks.
- I enjoyed the Coyote series, by Alan Steele: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(novel)
- The COMP.BASILISK FAQ is in the 'futures' section of Nature ... which has a number of other good short stories. https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures
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For Adrian Tchaikovsky, I really liked the Children of Time series and the exploration of believable non-human minds. The last one got a bit weirder, but still very good.
The Final Architecture is on my to read list (currently going through all of Coyote series by Allen Steele).
- Allen Steele's work isn't really all that similar, though I suppose Coyote and its sequels come closest. The authors I mentioned are much better bets.
