"Sixty Days and Counting" by Kim Stanley Robinson

Sixty Days and Counting" by Kim Stanley Robinson

Sixty Days and Counting (2007) is the third book in the Science in the Capital trilogy. including Forty Signs of Rain (2004) and Fifty Degrease Below (2005).

After the Mars trilogy Robinson is on the top of my must-read list. These three books have only strengthened his position there.
Robinson explores the very near future. Something we are going to experience very soon. The main question is what we are going to do there...

"Icehenge" by Kim Stanley Robinson

"Icehenge" by Kim Stanley Robinson

" In the 23rd century on Pluto, Icehenge stands at the north pole of the planet. It is a study in ice frozen harder than stone, harder than steel. Each slab towers 200 feet above the crater-pocked surface. The one in the center bears an inscription in Sanskrit. The first mission to Pluto found it there, waiting for them. Is it a starlit message from an alien race? Or does it mark a human mystery? For there was one ship that might have passed this way, forgotten decades ago. The novel incorporates two short stories, "To Leave a Mark" and "On the North Pole of Pluto""

A distinctive quality of a great SF author is his or her (unfortunately usually his) ability to project past and present into future, however distant, without breaking links between common sense, scientific facts and observations and futuristic ideas.