Mars By Ben Bova

Dear World,

Right I thought I'd start with an Author who is, at number five in my top five authors. Durr your most likely thinking, and my answer is 'Thats my introduction and like it or lump it, as my grandmother always used to say'.

Ben Bova for those of you who do not know of his work, is an American born Sci-Fiction writer who has had an amazingly long writing career. He has many series but within his series, my personal favourite has to be the 'Orion' Series, the four original books I read growing up was one of the reasons for my wanting to be a writer and the fifth released only last year is just as amazing as the four I read previously.
But it is not this series which I am going to talk about. That would take forever and when I am fifty I would still be writing this blog.

I am going to pick one book, not a recent book either it was published in 1992 and was to be the first book I ever read of the Grand Tour series. I can not remember when i first read it but i remember where i was, Cornwall and the sun was so hot I took a walk though the town and in a box outside a small book shop was a box of battered books, sat right at the top was 'Mars'.
It was slightly more battered than the other books in the box and even the man in the shop asked if i didn't want a copy off of the shelf, a band new copy for half price. But this small paper back that caught my eye, I really wanted due to the favt it had character, it had the feeling of a book that had been read a million times.

So I walked brought a ice cream and went back to holiday site, where over five days I read and reread that one small paper pack book. So much so in the end I had to go buy a new copy only a few months later.

But none the less that book and the plot had me hooked. 'Oh My Days' it is amazing actually I would go as far as saying it is speechless. Jamie a native American Indian geologist, who was never intended for the original flight manifest to mars, but just before the end, is bunked up to fly the distance. He would go onto make greatness seem a distant memory, and in this book to make a major discovery for humanity and to survive in the harshness's of Mars. He would search for his identity on this untouched sand ball, he would also look inside himself and find that the planet he has wanted to be on since childhood is no longer just their within his grasp, it was in his parm. He creates controversy and scientific wonder, in a book that will keep you gripped from start to finish.

Final Thoughts: Lend or buy this book and anything else you can find by this author, you will not be disappointed. Everything I have read by this author has been pure platinum, even gold is not enough for this talent in the literacy section. Even if you have to search for just one of his books it is well worth it.

Rating: 9.8/10

Peace Out! Craig Cremu Cragus Virgo.