Marooned on Eden

Marooned on Eden is the third of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Rescued From Paradise. In Marooned on Eden, the human explorers of the Barnard Star System, along with their jelly-blob alien friends, the flouwen, explore the moons of the gas-giant planet, Gargantua. They find an Earth-like moon and use their rocket landers to explore it further. The rocket crashes and they find themselves marooned for the rest of their lives on a veritable Eden.