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Pros & Cons

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Pros

One of the all time great sci fi stories. Perhaps the most fanciful element is the discovery of intelligent life. To all readers of science fiction.

While the story can be dinged for getting much wrong about mars, the attempt to deal seriously with potential obstacles makes this story timeless. It is amazing how much he was able to foresee.

Clarke describes a nascent mars colony through the eyes of a popular science fiction writer who was offered the chance to visit. Martin gibson is a terran writer journeying to mars to report on the successes there.

Cons

The first half of the book is extremely slow and boring. The story plods along. For a visionary author, cannot overlook the lack of foresight.

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Highlights

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Quality

The plot is fairly thin but it doesnt have the episodic quality of much of his later work

Im satisfied with as a complete package

Overview

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novel, first, still, good and written.

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This product had a total of 259 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 4 2022.