Coyote
by Allen M. Steele · first published 2002
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A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
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…modern standards (it was written when the Soviet Union was still a thing). But it's the first "adult" sci-fi book I ever read as a kid, so it'll always have a special place for me. EDIT: Another one: 6. Coyote by Allen Steele. I love stories like this one: primitive, longshot interstellar exploration and primitive, first generation colonization. Especially for desperate reasons. The first two Coyote books…
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗I enjoyed the Coyote series, by Alan Steele: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(novel)
on “Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars” ↗Allen Steele has the Coyote series, which covers some colonists settling on a planet. They're (at least one of them is, I forget if the others are) chapbooks, but that's okay. There's some nice stuff about failure of important…
on “A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company” ↗…Roberts. It's a short enjoyable novel about conflict. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salt-GOLLANCZ-S-F-Adam-Roberts-eboo... I'd love to see a good adaptation of Red Mars / Blue Mars / Green Mars. I think the Coyote series by Allen Steele could be fun if done right.
on “Ask HN: Which fantasy and/or SF literary works you would like to see on screen?” ↗I think Allen Steele's Coyote series features this, but I can't seem to find any reference to it. (And I no longer have the books).
on “What's the Minimum Number of People for a Generational Ship to Proxima Centauri?” ↗This is part of the plot of Allen Steele's 2002 SF novel Coyote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(novel)
on ““The Martian” + Starship” ↗Allen Steele's work isn't really all that similar, though I suppose Coyote and its sequels come closest. The authors I mentioned are much better bets.
on “A Visual Book Recommender” ↗…Children of Time series and the exploration of believable non-human minds. The last one got a bit weirder, but still very good. The Final Architecture is on my to read list (currently going through all of Coyote series by Allen Steele).
on “Accelerando (2005)” ↗