Earthbound (A Marsbound Novel)
<b>"One of science fiction's most reliable practitioners" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) continues his saga of space exploration. </b><p>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 nineteenthcentury technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them.</p>