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CrispinatorN
Nov 23, 2012CrispinatorN rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Went back and reread this book for the first time in about 15 years. The first part of this book introducing us to the characters and transporting us to Mars is absolutely pitch perfect. A better work describing the voyage to Mars could not possibly be written and the characters are everything you could ask for. I do think the back part of the book, transitioning from the first settlement to a settled world on Mars, thus setting the scene for the battles between Earth and Mars and terraformers versus reds to come in Green Mars and Blue Mars is good, but not excellent. I feel the transition from that first settlement to a large number of settlements, with the problems that ensue, is far too fast given the realities of moving goods from one planet to another and drawn in very broad strokes versus the tight focus of the first part of the book. Overall, easily the best book written on Mars.