Annotation

The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963.

Voyage is the epic saga of America’s might-have-been — a powerful, sweeping novel imaginatively created from true lives and real events. NASA, the Saturn rocket, and historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan are interwoven with unforgettable characters that only a world-class novelist could bring to life: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; Lee, the small-scale aerospace contractor with a big dream; Priest, who gives his life so that others might live to walk on Mars. And most memorable of all, Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who is her own worst enemy, and best friend; a passionate woman who risks a career and a lifelong love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

Voyage won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997.

• Voyage
  • AUTHOR’S NOTE
  • Prologue
  • Book One
    • Thursday, February 13, 1969
    • Sunday, July 20, 1969
    • Saturday, October 4, 1969
    • Monday, October 27, 1969
    • Monday, April 13, 1970
    • Monday, April 13, 1970
    • Tuesday, April 14, 1970
    • Sunday, June 21, 1970
    • Thursday, July 9, 1970
    • Saturday, August 7, 1971
    • Monday, August 16, 1971
    • Wednesday, December 1, 1971
    • Saturday, December 11, 1971
    • Wednesday, January 5, 1972
  • Book Two
    • Wednesday, May 24, 1972
    • Saturday, October 28, 1972
    • Thursday, June 7, 1973
    • Friday, July 20, 1973
    • July 1976
    • Sunday, August 15, 1976
    • Wednesday, May 25, 1977
    • June 1978
    • Wednesday, July 5, 1978
    • Monday, August 7, 1978
    • Friday, December 8, 1978
    • February 1979
    • Monday, June 11, 1979
    • Thursday, April 10, 1980
    • Thursday, November 27, 1980
  • Book Three
    • Friday, November 28, 1980
    • Monday, December 1, 1980
    • Wednesday, December 3, 1980
    • Wednesday, December 3, 1980
    • Wednesday, December 3, 1980
    • Wednesday, December 3, 1980
    • Wednesday, December 3, 1980
    • Thursday, December 4, 1980
    • Thursday, December 4, 1980
    • Sunday, December 7, 1980
    • Monday, December 15, 1980
    • January 1981
    • Tuesday, January 20, 1981
    • Wednesday, January 21, 1981
    • Friday, January 30, 1981
    • Tuesday, February 3, 1981
    • Friday, February 27, 1981
    • March-April 1981
    • Thursday, April 16, 1981
    • Thursday, April 16, 1981
  • Book Four
    • Wednesday, June 3, 1981
    • June 1981
    • Monday, July 6, 1981
    • Wednesday, August 12, 1981
    • Thursday, September 24, 1981
    • January 1982
    • Monday, January 11, 1982
    • Saturday, June 5, 1982
    • Tuesday, August 10, 1982
    • Monday, December 6, 1982
    • Monday, February 21, 1983
    • November 1983
    • Tuesday, November 8, 1983
    • Thursday, July 12, 1984
    • Monday, August 6, 1984
    • August 1984
    • Monday, August 13, 1984
    • Monday, August 13, 1984
  • Book Five
    • Friday, August 17, 1984
    • Monday, December 3, 1984
    • January 1985
    • Monday, February 18, 1985
    • Tuesday, February 26, 1985
    • March 1985
    • Thursday, March 21, 1985
      • PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE
      • MANNED SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS BUILDING, COCOA BEACH
      • MERRITT ISLAND
      • MANNED SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS BUILDING, COCOA BEACH
      • BANANA RIVER
      • MANNED SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS BUILDING, COCOA BEACH
      • NEWPORT BEACH
      • LAUNCH COMPLEX 39A, MERRITT ISLAND
      • JACQUELINE B. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
      • LAUNCH CONTROL CENTER, CAPE CANAVERAL
      • JACQUELINE B. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
      • MERRITT ISLAND
      • JACQUELINE B. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
  • Book Six
  • LOST MARS

Voyage
by Stephen Baxter

For my nephew, William Baxter

AUTHOR’S NOTE

In 1996, evidence of life on Mars has ignited interest in manned missions to the red planet, but such missions are many years, perhaps decades, away. But NASA could have sent astronauts to Mars as long ago as 1986.

Voyage depicts an alternate history: a time line identical to our own up to a crucial moment in the autumn of 1963 and diverging thereafter.