Book Description
Marooned on Eden is the third of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Rescued From Paradise. In Marooned on Eden , the human explorers of the Barnard Star System, along with their jelly-blob alien friends, the “flouwen”, explore the moons of the gas-giant planet, Gargantua. They find an Earth-like moon and use their rocket landers to explore it further. The rocket crashes and they find themselves marooned for the rest of their lives on a veritable Eden.

ANNOTATION

They were on a lifelong mission to explore the star nearest Earth. And what wonders they found orbiting Barnard's Star: an incredible two-planet system that shared a single atmosphere. But the scientists weren't prepared to be marooned on an alien landscape of great beauty and subtle threat. . . . Original.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A Rocheworld Novel

Marooned on Eden is the third of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Rescued From Paradise.

In Marooned on Eden, the human explorers of the Barnard Star System, along with their jelly-blob alien friends, the "flouwen," explore the moons of the gas-giant planet, Gargantua. They find an Earth-like moon and use their rocket landers to explore it further. The rocket crashes and they find themselves marooned for the rest of their lives on a veritable Eden.