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Steven Cutts
Steve Cutts is a Doctor and Science writer with a long standing interest in the exploration of Mars.
He studied Physics at Imperial College and Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital.
His novel VIKING VILLAGE was published in December 2009 and is available on Amazon. He has also published extensively in the national and local press in the UK. You can down load samples of his work below.
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PUBLICATIONS
Viking Village
In late 21st Century,
the American base on
Mars is threatened with
disaster. A crew of 10
brilliant scientists and
engineers are facing
starvation when their
commanding officer dies
and their rocket ship
malfunctions.
Conscious that the crew will
have run out of fuel long
before the next supply craft
will arrive arrive, NASA sends
its latest ship, The Ajax on a
desperate rescue mission.
But the risks involved are unprecedented and the space agency struggles to find astronauts that are willing to fly it.
Finally, when all seems lost, an unlikely pair of Naval Officers step forward to save the day.
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LECTURE TOURS
In the last 12 months, Steve Cutts has developed two popular science lectures.
Life on Mars
Life On Mars explains the back drop to Viking Village and discusses the latest discoveries about the Red Planet.
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Space Craft Propulsion
His more recent talk, Space Craft Propulsion attempts to explain why we have failed to produce a fully reusable space shuttle and looks at how this problem might soon be over comet.
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Building bridges between worlds of art and science
In this article for the magazine SpaceFlight, Steven Cutts discusses how science fiction can play an important role in science education. Many young people are turning away from science and this is a major problem for our society. Nothing enthuses the young better than the suggestion of space travel...
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Space travel is costly and risky
As the space shuttle finally retired, I published this article in the Birmingham Post...
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Forget Earth - let's move to Mars!
For decades, the most popular destination for migrants the world over has been the United States. It was in America that the downtrodden and the footloose of this world saw their destiny. But America's ability to accommodate such people has always been finite. Billions of poverty-stricken people today crave the comfort and the affluence of a better world and almost none of them can have it. The increase in global population now exceeds the entire population of the US every five years; if migration is the solution to the problems of mankind then we're going to have to find a different planet.
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Strife on Mars: New designs on the Red Planet
Somewhere out there, halfway between the third and fourth planets from the Sun, lies a fabulous creature that devours robots. Invisible to everything but the imagination, the existence of this monster has been inferred rather than confirmed. It's a myth, of course, but even in the scientific community, a myth can stem from fact. And the fact in this instance is that more than half of the spacecraft sent to Mars have failed, and nobody knows why.
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