"I liked this book so much, I did the cover art." --Ron Miller. Lieutenant Peter Grant of the Volunteer Space Rescue Service is taken hostage by pirates, who are holding him for ransom. The Rescue Service can't afford to pay a ransom and is not equipped for an armed rescue. Fellow Rescueman, Jack Williams, unwilling to violate Rescue tradition and leave a person behind, decides to improvise a rescue . . .
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By Doug P
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Very little character development and shallow at best. The locations jumped around and the story line was shallow. I finished it only out of morbid curiousity, not because it was compelling.
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By Dave O'Neill
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Near future space based SF isn't all that popular these days and this firmly takes up the traditions of Heinlein, Bova and Steele with a relatively near future exploration of what happens when space travel meets the realities of colonization.
I have a few quibbles with the timeline - I'm not convinced 2074 is far enough away to have the level of development we see on Mars, and there are technological extrapolations that the author has missed. But in terms of the realities of space based operations a lot of thought has gone into this and I'm interested to see how the story develops in future sequels.
I have a few quibbles with the timeline - I'm not convinced 2074 is far enough away to have the level of development we see on Mars, and there are technological extrapolations that the author has missed. But in terms of the realities of space based operations a lot of thought has gone into this and I'm interested to see how the story develops in future sequels.
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Excellent!
Well written page-turner. I cared about the characters; well developed and real. Fascinating view of what life would be like on Mars, in space and aboard the different ships. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mandy Murphy
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Fun sci-fi romp
Since my early teens I've been a lover of all things sci-fi, especially stuff relating to exploration of the solar system. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Charles Sheehan-Miles
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Lots of Action- Solid Story Telling
"Pirates of Mars" has a lot going for it. The setting, a frontier-land Mars, provides a great back drop for story telling. Read more
Published 14 months ago by E. Peck
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