
Mars
$30.40
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2008
Summary
To the harsh landscape of Sol’s fourth planet travel thirteen astronauts, the best scientists from eleven nations, on a history-making voyage into the unknown. The international crew of the Mars mission have spent nine months in space, crossing 100 million kilometres, to reach the last great frontier. Their voyage is fraught with disputes, both personal and political, and their time on Mars limited to ‘footprints and flags’; yet while there they will come face-to-face with the most incredible…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340960998 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034096099X |
| Author: | Ben Bova |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Hodder Great Reads |
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‘There used to be only one Mars and it belonged to Edgar Rice Burroughs … Now Ben Bova has landed, with a new pair of eyes, and Mars is brand new again’
A real space novel that predicts many of the problems that will confront the men and women who actually make the trip sometime around 2020 - James A. Michener
There used to be only one Mars and it belonged to Edgar Rice Burroughs … Now Ben Bova has landed, with a new pair of eyes, and Mars is brand new again - Ray BradburyExtraordinary … MARS succeeds as scientific exploration, as adventure story, as a mythic tale - Orson Scott Cairda splendid book … of his many books, MARS must be the most important - Arthur C. ClarkeGripping, realistic - don’t miss it - Terry BrooksAbout The Author
Ben Bova
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. He and his wife live in Florida.
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