Asteroid Miners: Difference between revisions

** ''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.

* 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]].

** "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.

 

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