The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Joe Haldeman’s Marsbound brought us face to face with life on the Red Planet—and forever altered our place in the cosmos. Starbound, its thrilling sequel, takes humanity to an inevitable showdown whose repercussions will be felt for generations to come.

It was a near-fatal accident that made a teenage girl humanity’s first ambassador to an alien race. But it’s no accident when an older, wiser Carmen Dula is tapped for a critical mission. Along with her husband, space pilot Paul Collins, Carmen must travel to a faraway system and negotiate a truce with the powerful Others.

Tens of thousands of years ago, these Others built a huge underground complex on Mars and filled it with thousands of bio-engineered Martians, all to monitor humanity’s evolution. Highly advanced—and highly paranoid—the Others have already tried to destroy Earth. Now it is time to go to them.

For the seven humans and two Martians aboard ad Astra, the six-year voyage will lead to a startling discovery about the Others’ genesis. But time—and relativity—waits for no one. While the envoy struggles to broker a pact, Earth is busy building a small fleet of warships, undermining Carmen's mission of peace....