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ISBN: 044101979X
LibraryThing
| This is the newly released sequel for Marsbound which I really liked, so I was excited when this arrived the other day. This book is much like the previous one stylistically, being written as a set of mostly first person diary entries. However, the people writing these entries are older now, and this feels less like a teen fiction novel. There is also more than one narrator in this book, unlike the first, with generally each chapter being narrated by one of three people. This can be a bit jarring at first, because it takes a while to realize that a new person is narrating and that's why the point of view changed. You get used to it though. This book is also quite Heinlein like in this level of sex, which is similar to Marsbound, but not true of all of the Haldeman books I've read -- I think it might be a relatively recent change to his style.
Overall a good book, I enjoyed it, and I can't wait for the next one in the series (which Joe finished at the end of 2010).
Tags for this post: book joe_haldeman mars aliens exploration space_travel sanity first_contact marsbound
Related posts: Marsbound; Earthbound; Rendezvous With Rama; Red Mars; Mars: A Survival Guide; Camouflage ; The Coming; The Apocalypse Troll; The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Agent to the Stars; Redshirts; Runner; The Ship Who Sang ; The Accidental Time Machine ; Logos Run; Buying Time; Destinies Volume 1 Number 1; A Hymn Before Battle; A World Out of Time; Jupiter |
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ISBN: 978044101667
LibraryThing
| Joe Haldeman does good work, and in general I have really liked his books. They're easy to read, fun, and interesting. Better than that, they're all quite different in the topics they cover, so he's not in a rut. The only exceptions have been There Is No Darkness, which wasn't very good and Forever Free, which I thought was lazily plotted. This book is no exception to the rule, and I really enjoyed it. One theme to Joe's work that I am noticing is that the "sex scenes" are always anti-climatic, which is interesting to note.
I'd like to have heard more about the One Year War, but there is scope for that to be another separate book. I don't think this book suffers from the lack of coverage, and its mostly tangentially interesting because I'd like to see how a society transforms itself in that way.
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Related posts: The Ship Who Sang ; Rendezvous With Rama; Red Mars; Ender's Game; Foundation's Edge ; Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow ; Mona Lisa Overdrive; Forever Peace; Runner; The Diamond Age ; Count Zero; Robot Dreams ; Logos Run; The Forever War; Buying Time; Speaker For The Dead; Burning Chrome; Lyonesse ; Camouflage ; Friday ; Dragonflight
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ISBN: 0441008763
Ace (2001), Edition: First Thus, Paperback, 288 pages
LibraryThing
| This book wasn't as good as I hoped it would be -- some of Joe's other work has been excellent (The Forever War, Forever Peace and Marsbound being examples). However, some of his other books are very weak, such as Forever Free and There Is No Darkness. This book is an interesting experiment in story telling style, where many different very short chapters are told by different characters. Each chapter follows on directly from the previous one. However, this style makes the story confusing to read until you can remember the names of all the characters. Worse than that though, the idea behind the story isn't terribly strong, and the resolution is weak as well.
Overall and ok read, but not Joe's best work and not a book I would recommend.
Tags for this post: book joe_haldeman alien space_travel florida first_contact
Related posts: Starbound; Rendezvous With Rama; Marsbound; Earthbound; The Apocalypse Troll; The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Humanity; Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Maverick; Dragon's Egg; Agent to the Stars; Runner; The Ship Who Sang ; Starquake; The Accidental Time Machine ; Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Changeling; Logos Run; Buying Time; Speaker For The Dead; Red Mars; Destinies Volume 1 Number 1; A Hymn Before Battle
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