Asteroid Miners: Difference between revisions

* ''Wheelers'' by mathemetician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen. In a subversion of the usual 'hotheaded, crude roughneck' style of asteroid miners, all the asteroid mining here is done by ''monks.'' Neo-Zen monks. All the solitude, concentration and slowness of the work makes them uniquely suited to it.

* Asteroid miners don't actually make an appearance in [[Ken MacLeod]]'s ''Newton's Wake'', but the folk duo play some of their work songs.

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* In Sergey Suhinov's ''Shadows on Mercury'', the heroes encounter this sort of miner in the [[Asteroid Belt]]. Each miner lives on his or her own asteroid, preferring isolation to companionship. They do, however, band together when the [[Big Bad]] threatens their way of life. Some of them even [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifice]] themselves by putting their one-man craft between the heroes and the [[Big Bad]]'s missiles.