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Title: Eh . . .
Review: This book might have been tolerable if Bova hadn't gone out of his way to contrive inter-personal conflict. The worst was the woman president of the US who gets angry at the American Indian who (because he was a little nervous, among other reason) says the wrong first words when they first step on martian soil. Instead of some grand-sounding phrase, he utters some ancient Indian saying. This gets the president angry, and (from afar) she begins to hold all these things against the mission and other things. Like . . . get real. No one would get angry over something stupid like that (or, at least I hope no one would. I guess you never know. People get upset over some pretty stupid things. But I find it hard to believe a president would hold such a grudge and take it to such lengths). Also, several things happen on the planet which I find hard to believe. Other reviewers point them out.
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