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Title: Mediocre story, with lots of sloppy details!
Review: A pretty so-so tale about the first trip to Mars.Mr. Bova decides that he wants his protagonist to be Native American, and then creates a perfect Pan-Indian character. He's supposed to be Navajo, but its clear from the get-go that Mr. Bova knows nothing about Navajo culture, so he feels free to substitute a pretty odd mix of pan-southwestern Indian characteristics that are pretty well both banal and cliché.The major plot complication comes in the form of a mysterious disease that I will not give a spoiler for, but again, its pretty obvious that Mr Bova knows nothing about this illness, as there is no possible way that this disease would have manifest itself in the ways described in the book. In 3 or 4 years, yes this disease might be inconvienient, but crippling in just 6 weeks? A whole lotta bunk in here, my friends.Its too hard to take a novel seriously when such trival details are just plain wrong.
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