Any suggestions on asteroid/kuiper exploration stories?

[torinobradley]

I'm interested in locating some fiction with exploration or dealing with Ceres, Vesta or any of the kuiper belt objects/dwarf planets/etc... Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Andrew

 

[yevaud]

Well, a few come to mind.

Some of Larry Niven's 'Gil the Arm' series (written in the late 60s/early 70s) are set within the belt, and do touch on those places.

Steven Donaldson's 'Gap' Series.

Ben Bova's 'Precipice' and 'Rock Rats.'

Piers Anthony 'Bio of a Space Tyrant'.

That's off the top of my head. Hope it helps.

 

[torinobradley]

Thanks, my friend. I will look for those next time I hit the book store!

 

[OleNewt]

Greg Bear has a trilogy called The Way (Eon, Eternity, Legacy) with an accompanying short story (The Way of All Ghosts, found in Far Horizons) that starts out with a newly-discovered asteroid nearly identical to Juno that comes racing in towards Earth (no crash, the asteroid is captured and parked in a stable orbit around Earth.)

 

[strandedonearth]

Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert Heinlein has stops on the Moon, Pluto, and Vega 5. I enjoyed it quite a bit, way back in high school.

 

[HopDavid]

Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford and David Brin. This was one of the first science fiction pieces by Brin. Prior to being a SF writer, he was a planetary scientist. His doctoral dissertation on cometary evolution is highly regarded, I believe. The story is about a landing on Halley's Comet.