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How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin
bwreads's review against another edition
1.0
I didn't get into this book. I started reading it, got bored, started flipping through it, got bored, and gave up. It's too Sci-Fi, which I don't enjoy. If someone likes Sci-Fi, they'll probably really enjoy it.
sme4027's review against another edition
informative
3.0
the science is cool enough but can feel a little too technical depending on how interested you are in the details. the jokes stop being funny fairly quickly though.
brandur's review against another edition
3.0
A handbook written in a joking sense about how to move to Mars and be successful in everything you do there. Zubrin backs up his fictional stories with a lot of scientific figures.
chalicotherex's review against another edition
2.0
Loved the science and speculation about Mars, but ruined by the author's libertarian schtick and his backfiring sense of humour. (Though I laughed at his suggestion that the Johnson Space Center was renamed the Bush ibn Saud Space Center sometime after 2008.)
The last two chapters about the social life on Mars were a bit much: he 'humorously' suggests that the institution of marriage ended on Earth because of too many domestic violence laws, and then has two pages full of lame Martian pick-up lines. The final chapter is called 'How to Avoid Bureaucratic Persecution', so you can guess where that goes.
It's a real shame, too, because I think the goal of settling Mars is a worthy one.
The last two chapters about the social life on Mars were a bit much: he 'humorously' suggests that the institution of marriage ended on Earth because of too many domestic violence laws, and then has two pages full of lame Martian pick-up lines. The final chapter is called 'How to Avoid Bureaucratic Persecution', so you can guess where that goes.
It's a real shame, too, because I think the goal of settling Mars is a worthy one.
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