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Title: Accurate and Interesting Trip to Mars
Review: This year has been a great one for novels about expeditions to Mars-- first MARS CROSSING, and now FIRST LANDING; both excellent books with the incredible technical realism and interesting characters. Robert Zubrin's book follows a group of very different characters as they execute a difficult mission to Mars, and he does not skip out on either the technical details or on the character conflicts. And that's to be expected-- not only is he a writer, Robert Zubrin is also a top-rate space engineer-- he literally wrote the book on how to go to Mars. This book is great if, like me, you think that science fiction needs both science _and_ interesting characters.Of the novels about Mars trips, I still think that Geoffrey A. Landis' book MARS CROSSING is my favorite, but FIRST LANDING runs a close second.
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