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Jan 17, 2018johnnybookreader rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Somewhere between one star and two, just not two whole stars. First off, I am a huge space fan having grown up with Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, so welcome "hard" sf with open arms. I'm also familiar with Andy Weir's work and loved both the book and the movie adaptation of "The Martian". It's kind of tough to say I was let down by his sophomore {sappho-more?) effort but there it is. Weir shows a lack of character development and scene enlargement by hiding his inability by the clever use of procedural analysis, i.e: when in doubt, describe the difficulties of welding in a vacuum! He sure beat that horse to the ragged edge. "Jazzy" was not exactly sympathetic either, I guess I just have problems with underhanded connivers of either sex and Weir's depiction of a "strong woman" is not convincing, Jazzy comes off more as a puerile teenage boy fantasy than anything else, maybe he should get some of those women's lessons that Svoboda is so in need of? He certainly has the money to pay the tuition.