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Title: Dismal, boring & shameless
Review: I was pretty excited to get started reading this book after reading the reviews. I am very interested in exploration of Mars, and this book seemed to be a perfect fit for me. Unfortunately I can not say I enjoyed this first attempt at fiction by Mr. Zubrin. The plot is predictable, and shallow. The characters could have been pulled from any number of previous tombs on exploration. At one point there is even a shameless plug for one of Zubrin's non-fiction works.I found this effort to be really lacking in conviction and creatvity, a least two more complete edits were warranted, unfortunately it is the reader who suffers reading through this dribble.About the only positive point I can note is that the suffereing is short-lived, as "First Landing" is quite short, and requires very little in the way of concentration, as the reader is aware of what lurks around every next corner.
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