Critical Mass - Daniel Suarez

Critical Mass

By Daniel Suarez

  • Release Date: 2023-01-31
  • Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi
Score: 4
4
From 124 Ratings

Description

In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid—kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance.
 
When unforeseen circumstances during an innovativeand unsanctionedcommercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own nextgen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroid's next swing by Earth.
 
In the process they'll need to establish the first spin-gravity station in deep space, the first orbiting solar power satellite and refinery, and historic infrastructure on the moon's surfaceall of which could alleviate a deepening ecological, political, and economic crisis back on Earth, and prove that space-based industry is not only profitable, but possibly humanity's best hope for a livable, peaceful future.

Reviews

  • Zzzzzz

    1
    By Clancy’s Ghost
    I’ve loved previous books by Suarez but this was so boring I couldn’t finish it. Construction diary meets nonstop sermon on climate change. No thanks
  • A Space SciFi Book Aerospace Engineers Can Love

    5
    By jdhouse4
    So many space sci-fi book are heavy on fiction but a real vacuum on space, or the things needed to get from x to y, and especially the big question of whether to even spend (waste?) time on landing on Mars (maybe Deimos and Phobos instead?). In Delta-V and Critical Mass, it is apparent to this former practitioner of astrodynamics that Suarez has done a lot of work to get things right. And that made his works so much fun to read.
  • Not complete

    5
    By fr.60
    I only have 148 pages. Where is the rest of my book?

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