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Originally Posted by WhiteWolf  Even though the purpose of this thread is a discussion of the books and the author, I would also like to know who here has read these books, and if it is worth the investment of time and money to read them all. You see, I started out by reading MARS a year and a half ago, and then MOONRISE last year, and I am nearly finished reading MOONWAR. They have all been excellent books, and I have no doubt that I'll start RETURN TO MARS sometime very soon.
But how are the rest of the books? Anyone read them? And what about Bova's non-Grand Tour books? |
I read
Mars and
Return to Mars a few years ago, although I didn't actually realise they were part of a larger series at the time. I liked
Mars, it did seem like a mostly plausible description of the first mission to Mars.
Return to Mars was still reasonably good but did largely feel like a retread of the first book and didn't add anything interesting to the concept.
Only other Bova book I've read was
Colony which I thought was very poor, the plot was ludicrous and the characterisation was awful. The Mars books were much better, this may be because they were written over a decade later (IIRC), so Bova had time to become a better writer.