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by: Lester del Rey  List Price: $2.99 Amazon.com's Price: $1.50 You Save: $1.49 (50%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Format: Kindle Book Publication Date: March 29, 2008 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: There were ten passengers in the little pressurized cabin of the electric bus that shuttled between the rocket field and Marsport. Ten men, the driver--and Bruce Gordon. He sat apart from the others, as he had kept to himself on the ten-day trip between Earth and Mars, with the yellow stub of his ticket still stuck defiantly in the band of his hat, proclaiming that Earth had paid his passage without his permission being asked. His big, lean body was slumped slightly in the seat. There was no expression on his face. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The least nerdy sf book ever writtenYou're probably used to sf with "clean violence," in which a billion people are killed with the push of a button. In this book, there's very little of that; rather, this novel should be the darling of the Mickey Spillane set. Every two or three pages, someone (usually the protagonist, Bruce Gordon) is attacked with fists, knives, clubs, or guns (not blasters, the old-fashioned type). But this isn't just a crime novel put into space; this is a hard sf novel, and the terraforming of Mars, while ... Read More 
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