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The Martian General’s Daughter by Theodore Judson - Review

The Martian General’s Daughter by Theodore Judson
Despite the presence of the Red Planet and of martial titles, this is not your standard piece of military sf; its 250-odd pages follow 45 years in the life of General Peter Justice Black and his illegitimate daughter, Justa, as civilization collapses back into a pre-industrial mode, helped along [...]

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AMERICAN FLAGG! by Howard Chaykin - Review

American Flagg! Volume 1 by Howard Chaykin
“American Flagg!” was satire of a different kind: loud, sexed-up and hypersaturated with the impossible colors of its ’80s heyday. Nominally an adventure comic book about Reuben Flagg, a Russian-Jewish-Martian-American porn star-turned-”Plexus Ranger,” it was really an excuse for writer-artist Howard Chaykin to present his vision of total information [...]

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Marsbound by Joe Haldeman - Review

Marsbound by Joe Haldeman
A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth.
Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime—they’re going to Mars.
Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from [...]

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