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Line 39: ** ''The Martian Way'' is about a colony of asteroid miners on Mars threatened by Straw Environmentalists putting an embargo on water exports from Earth. The miners hatch a plan to grab one of the ice fragments in Saturn's rings, which is only possible because they're psychologically tough enough to endure the long, isolated trip. * ''[[The Rolling Stones (novel)\|The Rolling Stones]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] features the titular family Stone traveling to the Asteroid Belt, where the twins of the family hope to sell food and luxury items to the miners extracting radioactive ores. * ''"The Rogue''"/"Industrial Revolution", a short story byin [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''Flying Mountains'' series, features a tense love affair between the owner of an asteroid mine and an officer in Earth's space navy. ** InLater ~~later~~in ~~stories~~the ~~by Poul Anderson~~series, the various miners of the Asteroid Belt form the Asterite Republic after a full-scale Asterite War Of Independence against the Earth. (The story draws heavily from the US Revolutionary War.) * Murray Leinster's ''Miners in The Sky'' takes place in the ring system around Thotmess, a gas giant in another star system. The ring system is a completely lawless place where "claim jumping" is frequent. Miners, riding small "donkey ships", need to contend with both the harsh natural environment and with fierce human competitors. * In Jerry Pournelle's short story ''Tinker'', the Asteroid Belt is dominated by a consortium of multiplanetary corporations. In a subversion of the genre, [[Author Appeal\|the corporations are the good guys and the rugged, individualistic asteroid miners are the bad guys]]. Line 54: * In the Larklight Series by Phillip Reeve, steam punk asteroid miners are hard at work among the asteroids of various planets in our solar systems, complete with minecart tracks tying the asteroids together. * In [[Star Trek: A Time to...]], this is how the Dokaalan race live, following their planet's [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]. * [[Randall Garrett]] mentioned asteroid mining in a lot of his short stories, and was named by [[Larry Niven]] as the source of his ideas about the Belters. "Anchorite" and "Thin Edge" deal with the differences in culture between bureaucratic Earth and free-thinking Belt people. "A Spaceship Named McGuire" and "His Master's Voice" are set in the Belt, with miner technology and culture as a background. == Live Action TV ==