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The 13th Day of Christmas

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I enjoy any kind of reasonably well written Mars fiction so I might be prejudiced in the number of stars I'm giving this. But it is a good, suspenseful story -- more Apollo 13 than Neil Armstrong, as the title hints -- of astronauts and the ingenuity and problem solving that only a "manned" (what's the gender free version of that word - one of the astronauts here is a very good female character!) mission can bring to planetary exploration. It's subtitled The Story of Mars 1, which led me to hope for a sequel until I realized that Mars 1 is simply the name of the mission. However, if the author happens to have a sequel in mind about a Mars 2 mission, I'd definitely want to read that too.

I was totally engrossed in this book! I could not put it down. Very entertaining, it would make a great movie. I enjoy all of Robert Blevin's writings!