![]() ![]() ![]() Most action scenes come off as eighth-grade bullies' scuffles. The characters argue and fight about things that might be important, but in their mouths sound trivial. There are long summary passages that sound like back story from notebooks. ![]() There is a determined effort to shape realistic characters, but overall they are little different from soap opera people. The plot is for all practical purposes nonexistent. The passages about science and technology are interesting even though most of them fail to advance the plot an inch. The aim seems to be to give a hyper-realistic account of what the colonization of Mars might be like, and some of the descriptive passages are startlingly evocative despite the audio narrator's relentless efforts to conceal the meaning of the sentences. ![]()
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