Series
A Meeting with Medusa
Alastair Reynolds, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 1971–2016
Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa follows an astronaut, badly injured in an earlier disaster, on a solo balloon expedition into Jupiter's atmosphere, where he encounters vast floating lifeforms unlike anything previously catalogued. Decades later, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds continued the story in The Medusa Chronicles, following the same protagonist across a much longer span of future history. The original novella won the 1972 Nebula Award.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Map
A Meeting with Medusa at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
1 novel · 1 novelette
3 authors
reads like:science fictionspace explorationouter planets & moonsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Medusa Chroniclesdarkest · calmest
- A Meeting with Medusabrightest · most intense