Mars Crossing

Geoffrey A. Landis has been a major figure in hard SF for over a decade. His short fiction has won the Hugo and Nebula Awards and the reader's polls in both Asimov's SF and Analog. He is also the designer and administrator of successful experiments carried by the Mars Pathfinder mission and the holder of a NASA research fellowship.Now at last Landis delivers a novel-length work of SF, an epic of human tenacity and survival in the early days of manned Mars exploration.In the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, humans have been to Mars twice -- but neither expedition successfully returned. Now, with worldwide interest in manned Mars exploration on the wane, a third expedition has made it by eking out resources from a combination of public and private sponsorship.But from the moment of their landing, everything begins to go wrong. The astronauts' only hope of survival lies in trekking halfway across the surface of Mars itself ... a journey to the limits of human endurance.