The Expanse (novel series) a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets. The series initially takes place in the solar system, using many real world locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon. As the series progresses,
The Ganymede Club The Ganymede Club The Ganymede Club is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, published in 1995. A mystery and a thriller, the story unravels in the same universe that Sheffield imagined in "Cold as Ice". Shortly after humanity begins colonisation of the solar system, a trade war sets off vicious civil war that kills billions. The book received favorable reviews from "Library Journal" and "Kirkus Reviews", as well as in the science-fiction press. It was ranked #14 in SF novels in the 1996 "Locus" awards. The novel has been translated into Italian and was published as "Memoria