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Climbing Olympus

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CO could have been much much better since the plot line is brilliant and the setting is sumptuous. It would have been enough to make Adins and Dvas genetically modified so that they were able to pass down their genes to their children to get a magnificent environment with three races, Adins, Dvas, and Humans, vying for controlling Mars. All those ingredients well blended could have made a prodigious epic, the magnitude of Dune, indeed. Alas KJA is not F. Herbert and a large part of the story is about the past of the protagonists, past spent on Earth. Remembrance poisons the story and ends up in weakening the plot. KJA had gold in his hands and changed it into... aluminium.

While I read this book a long time ago, I never forgot how much I disliked it. Were it not for the fact that I had little else to do at the time I would never have finished it. Melodramatic, implausible, characters so cliche that they could've come straight from Casablanca, this book really ranks among the worst I have ever read. As a fan of the orginal "Dune" books, I was glad I found that this author had co-written the new series with Frank Herbert's son... It saved me from having to read that series.

As a kid, I always wondered what it would be like on Mars. This book gave me a good idea.

The storyline of a possible community on the red planet made me wonder again if it could happen in my lifetime.

This story moves quite well and deals with some human emotion as well as science. It even gives a miracle or two. I hope that Kevin J. Anderson revisits this story in the future.

I would recommend this one for all Sci-Fi fans.

A well-written book with real and well-developed personalities. Plenty of internal and external conflict going on as they terraform Mars.

This book was not quite bad enough for me to not finish, although it came close 3 or 4 times. Pedestrian basic economic/political struggle. Not really worth wasting your time on.

What happens when humans are altered, to in turn alter a world for others to live on. What do they do when it is all finished?