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Title: A bulked-out beach-book
Review: Perhaps I was expecting too much, instead it confirmed why Bova's books don't work for me. I like Gene Wolfe, Frank Herbert, Hermann Hesse, Rachmaninov - people that carry me along on an emotional & intellectual tide and leave excited for a long while afterwards. I finished Mars on the beach in two days, put it down and never looked back - I felt I'd just read a rather boring popular science magazine article accompanied by a Disney tour-guide holding me the hand all the way and in the end never really telling me anything I didn't already know.
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