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Title: Birth of Fire by Jerry Pournelle ISBN: 0-671-65649-X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: June, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Mars Colonization Novels Ever
Comment: I had not read any of Jerry Pournelle's other books, when I picked this up years ago. It is an amazingly good yarn dealing with the now cliched notion of the colonization of Mars. The lead protagonist Garrett is given the option to stay in jail in overcrowded earth or get shipped out to Mars on a work detail.
He opts for the latter and gets involved in a revolution to free Mars from the oppressive multinational corporations back on earth. I read this book at least thrice! Great writing. The author moves the action at a good pace. The book felt very believable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good story - classic Pournelle
Comment: After I read 'Janissaries' I had a 'Pournelle reading frenzy' and this is one of the novels I bought as well.
I like it, it's quite classic. Boy gets to mars 'cause he doesn't have much of a future back home. When arriving on Mars it seems he won't have much of a future there either. But the locals help him out and suddenly he finds himself caught up in a revolution...
classic, not the most complex plot ever, but a good read never the less.
Rating: 4
Summary: A juvenile in the Heinlein tradition
Comment: Garrett Pittson is a youth without a future in a Washington slum. After a fight between gangs he is convicted to exile and slave labour on Mars. There he is picked up by the Marsmen, emigrants and former convicts turned settlers outside the cities and mines governed by companies - and lands in the midst of a revolution in growing. Allegiance to new-won friends and love to a settler's daughter makes him join the revolution and together with the revolution the Project - using nukes to make volcanoes spew out enough water and gases to strengthen Mars atmosphere sufficiently for humans to live without space suits on Mars. Some fight scenes of the Falkenberg quality. All in all a lot like Heinlein's juveniles - in atmosphere as well as in message.
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Title: Starswarm (Jupiter) by Jerry Pournelle ISBN: 0765345315 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Cyborg from Earth: A Jupiter Novel by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812571843 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Putting Up Roots: A Jupiter Novel by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812538927 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Storms of Victory (Janissaries III) by Jerry E. Pournelle, Roland Green ISBN: 0441382991 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: JANISSARIES by Pournelle ISBN: 0671877097 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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