Simon Morden

Author , England

Simon Morden has degrees in geology and planetary geophysics, and is the author of 14 science fiction and fantasy novels. He was awarded the Philip K Dick award in 2011 for the Petrovitch trilogy. His first nonfiction book is The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars (Pegasus, 2022).

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Written by Simon Morden

A Martian landscape with a rover, rocky terrain, and distant mountains, with the foreground featuring rover equipment under a blue and yellow sky.

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Astronomy

Thriving on Mars

Dust storms, long distances and freezing temperatures make living on Mars magnificently challenging. How will we do it?

Simon Morden