Pioneer - Get Ready for Launch!

[Anstett]

Neal Stephenson's Seveneves is another one to read for this genre...

I liked that for the first 50 to 60% of the book then he went in a very.... non-scientific 'change things to make a story' sort of way.
Fully agree that the first part of the book seems to fit the Pioneer theme well.

 

[rinku]

It's a book of two halves, but the second part happens a fair bit later and is probably in more traditional Traveller territory. Although it remains pretty hard science. The whole using whip dynamics for orbital transfer was apparently worked out properly.

 

[Anstett]

What I disliked about the ending is the planet has all the water boiled away, oh wait there is water deep enough to keep a submarine working for hundreds of years, oh we can live in caves for hundreds of years as the atmosphere burns, etc. We have tens of thousands of people living in space stations all looking down on the planet but no one ever noticed .... they are nice story lines but extremely hard to believe.