Marsbound

Joe Haldeman

Aug 2008 · A Marsbound Novel Book 1 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime-they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad-and a message for the humans on Mars: We were here first...

Ratings and reviews

The plot was fine, but the author has an annoying tendency to have random characters appear in a scene with no previous explanation as to how they got there. And to insert wholly new characters into the story with no explanation, either. Literally right in the middle of a conversation, the author will have someone pipe up who had never been introduced. It was very annoying.

Quick & dirty review: an uneven story (compressed in parts, stretched out in others) that just never felt cohesive. I will not be reading the sequels.

Took a lot of reading to progress to the intersting parts. Not my 1st rodeo of the primise of the type of "the other" alien life form. A good read .

About the author

Joe Haldeman is a Vietnam veteran whose classic novels The Forever War and Forever Peace both have the rare honor of winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has served twice as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.