In the 21st century, a team of astronauts is dispatched to Mars to determine whether it is capable of sustaining human life. But when the mission commander orders the crew to evacuate the damaged ship, it becomes a fight for survival on the planet's surface. And if the commander leaves the crew to their fate, all of humanity will suffer the consequences....
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Old fashion SF - one cliffhanging chapter after another,
This review is from: Red Planet: A Novel (Paperback)
Peter Telep's Red Planet introduces handyman Robert Gallagher, a mission specialist aboard the spaceship MEDEA ONE. The author comes by his handyman-as-mission specialist honestly. Our 19th Century seafaring ancestors had their handyman-mission specialists... ship's carpenter, sail-maker (wind engineer?), etc. The ship's carpenter patched leaky hulls, repaired battle damage, stepped new masts, and moved and fabricated internal bulkheads. H.M.S. Beagle's five-year voyage (1831-36) contributed to Darwin's theory of biological evolution. While the deckhand, cook, carpenter, sail-maker - mission specialists all - kept the fragile Beagle out of harms way. And does SF writer A.E. van Vogt have these thoughts in mind when he places a 'Know-man' aboard the starship Space Beagle in the novel 'Voyage of the Space Beagle?' Telep also reminds us that, "Wherever we go, our behaviors come with us." After all, it's these behaviors that make us... interesting! So hit the MEDEA ONE with a cataclysmic solar flare while she's in Mars orbit. Leave five crewmen stranded on the martian surface by crashing the Mars Entry Vehicle during decent. Have the MEV's piggyback robot go psychotic as a result of the crash. Discover the habitat you need for survival is totally destroyed. Then, let the handyman and his interesting shipmates work it all out while reacting to each other's paranoia, angst, love, hate, and murder - yes, murder! Did I mention the worms? Through Gallagher's experiences, we are privy to a little social consciousness, spirituality, and philosophy... but there's not enough regolith there to scratch your faceplate. Ultimately, survival is dependent upon two females! Mission Commander Kate Bowman orbiting above in a crippled spacecraft and AMEE who's lurking just over the martian horizon. Gallagher needs them both to escape the martian surface and effect a suborbital rendezvous. After reading Peter Telep's novel I'm reluctant to see the Warner Brothers film. It's just too darn satisfying to use my imagination in consort with the author's word pictures. That's why I read fiction! Mr. Telep's Red Planet is good old fashion SF - one cliffhanging chapter after another! Peter, if and when you revisit Gallagher... be sure to take us along.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well done adaptation.,
By Dan Ginavan (Lawrence, Kansas USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Planet: A Novel (Paperback)
Peter Telep has adapted a screenplay very well indeed. The book is gripping, and I read it very quickly. When I put it down, I returned quickly to finish the read. I almost wanted the character's peril to continue rather than have the conclusion arrive, because the time on Mars, and the solutions presented to the problems that crop up are really excellent. The science is good, and I will see the film, and hopefully enjoy it as much as the novel. If you don't like Christian spirituality mixed with your SF then be wary, but don't disregard the book because of it. It remains thoughtful and the religious parts were not overly objectionable to this non-believer.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Red Planet Novelization: Excellent!!,
By Jerome (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red Planet: A Novel (Paperback)
`Red Planet' is an very well written and entertaining read. I tend to read novelizations before i see the film because often a movie will gloss over, bypass or ignore details that a book will take note of and make the characters and their situations much more interesting. Mr. Telep has done a excellent job with that because he explores the relationships between the astronaunts (the best part of the book) and their reasons for going to Mars, other than the mission, in such a way that only a book can divulge. This is a good old astronaunt story...no ET, no giant ant-like creatures, no Darth Vader - but there is...something up there. Read this book and you will believe you are walking the surface of Mars. If the movie is half as good, and believable, as the book then they have a blockbuster on their hands.
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