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Mars Crossing is a science-fiction novel by Geoffrey A. Landis about an expedition to Mars, published by Tor Books in 2000.Macmillan U.S., Mars Crossing, Tor Books 2000 (accessed March 14, 2013) The novel was a nominee for the Nebula award, and won the Locus Award for best debut novel in 2001.
The characters in the novel are members of the third expedition to Mars, following the failures of earlier and American expeditions. The mission plan is based on the Mars Direct concept, where fuel is manufactured from the Martian atmosphere; the Brazilian Mars expedition selected a Planum Boreum landing.
The book was released by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan USA, as a hardcover in December 2000, with the Science Fiction Book Club edition published in 2001. A paperback edition appeared in November 2001,Mars Crossing entry at Internet SF Data Base (ISFDB) and a second edition paperback in December 2016.Geoffrey A. Landis, Mars Crossing, Tor books, , 448 pages. Macmillan page (accessed March 2, 2017). "Classics in Reprint", Locus, December 2016. (accessed March 2, 2017).
In his extended essay "The Renewal of Hard Science Fiction", David M. Hassler compared the book with Allen Steele novel Labryrinth of Night, saying, "in these novels, both the terrain and the means of coping with it represent plausible, strange, and hence slightly funny measures all at the same time," and concludes that Landis "succeeds even more than at conveying the sense of the lonely, isolate character (the lonely inventor, perhaps) left to stand heroically against a cold universe."David M. Hassler, "Mars: Renewed Image and Heroic War," in "The Renewal of Hard Science Fiction," A Companion to Science Fiction (David Seed, ed.), pp. 252-255
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