There's a fantastic Ray Bradbury short story from 1948 called "Jonah and the Jove-Run" that I hardly see referenced anywhere. It's about Jupiter being the next frontier after colonizing Mars and the complexity of navigating the asteroid belt on supply runs.
It's a great quick read. Though it hardly attempts the sort of scientific justification as in The Three-Body Problem.
It's a great quick read. Though it hardly attempts the sort of scientific justification as in The Three-Body Problem.