Earthbound
#5852 of 8,085 books · #1325 in Science Fiction
Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2012).
The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel—destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using nineteenth-century technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 9781101552193
- Genre
- Topics
- First contact with aliensSurvival after technological collapseSpace exploration
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2012)
Other awarded books from Joe Haldeman
- Forever Peace (1998)2 wins · 18 score
- The Forever War (2010)2 wins · 16 score
- Camouflage (2013)1 win · 10 score
- The Accidental Time Machine (2008)0 wins · 5 score
- Mindbridge (1977)0 wins · 3 score
- All My Sins Remembered (2014)0 wins · 2 score
- Buying Time (1989)0 wins · 2 score
- Forever Free (2011)0 wins · 2 score
- Guardian (2002)0 wins · 2 score
- Marsbound (2013)0 wins · 2 score
- Old Twentieth (2005)0 wins · 2 score
- Starbound (2012)0 wins · 2 score
- The Coming (2000)0 wins · 2 score
- The Hemingway Hoax (2012)0 wins · 2 score
- Work Done for Hire (2014)0 wins · 2 score
- Worlds (2002)0 wins · 2 score
- Worlds Apart (2014)0 wins · 2 score
- Worlds Enough and Time (2014)0 wins · 2 score
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