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Review Summaries
"This is a mediocre account of the third manned trip to Mars. When their return ship ceases to function, a handful of astrounauts and scientists must travel halfway across the red planet to find a return ship from a previous mission that will only hold half their number."
Tyler Volz, Resident Geoffrey A. Landis Scholar
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Overall Review
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Plot
Composition of Book planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%
Tone of book
- depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- primitive/present day space voyage
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- explorer
Age:
- 40's-50's
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book?
Yes
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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