Twenty-five astronauts travel to Mars. But even before the landers touch down, political and personal friction threatens to ground the mission.

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such SF giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction-powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills-has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the novels of Peter F. Hamilton will change the way you think about science fiction....

Pelly feels miserable because she looks different from her Martian classmates, but a glamorous opera singer who visits her class shows Pelly that her differences make her special.

"A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he's leaving behind to do so"--

"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...