If you loved how James Tighe kludges solutions in vacuum after the mission goes sideways—and how Nathan Joyce’s team survives with only what’s on hand—you’ll vibe with The Martian. Mark Watney’s sandbagging CO2, jury-rigged life support, and orbital mechanics rescue feel as hands-on and technically grounded as the EVA fixes and habitat improvisations in Delta-v.

Like Delta-v’s asteroid-mining expedition—where Tighe’s crew trains like obsessives and then faces cascading failures—the opening of Seveneves locks humanity into a single, audacious plan and executes it through precise orbital logistics, EVA risks, and brutal decision-making. If you were hooked by the mission-first urgency and ticking-clock problem solving, this delivers it at epic scale.

If the diverse, hyper‑competent team in Delta-v—engineers, divers, pilots—felt real to you, you’ll appreciate the First Hundred in Red Mars. Their clashing philosophies, team dynamics under stress, and nuts‑and‑bolts fixes (from habitat construction to resource extraction) echo the way Tighe’s crew balances personality, politics, and hard tech to make a hostile place livable.

If Nathan Joyce’s visionary-but-cutthroat gambits and the Earthside meddling that imperil the asteroid mission grabbed you, Luna: New Moon takes that moral gray zone and turns the screws. Lunar dynasties bend law, economics, and life‑support monopolies to win, and the characters make Joyce‑level hard calls—brilliant, ruthless, and sometimes devastating.

If the rapid escalation from training to catastrophe in Delta-v kept you flipping pages, Artemis delivers a similar tempo. A lunar heist snowballs into sabotage and survival stakes, forcing on‑the‑fly engineering fixes and EVA derring‑do that mirror Tighe’s high‑risk hacks and the mission’s scramble to outsmart physics before time—and oxygen—run out.