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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">One Day On Mars - Travis S. Taylor</h1>
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2019-12-13
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/travis-s-taylor/">#travis s taylor</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/mars/">#mars</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2013/">#published:2013</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20638066-one-day-on-mars">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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A nonstop futuristic thrill-ride, through the critical events which were the
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breaking point for the underclass of Martian citizens and precipitated a
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revolution to break the Martian colonists free from the formidable Sol System
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government. The formerly red planet—now in danger of again becoming red, blood
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red—would never be the same, nor would the human race.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Ok, let's try something different here:</p>
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<li>(-) Long paragraphs, that just make things hard to read and with lots of
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useless information, sometimes, running out of topic.</li>
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<li>(-) Macross, without acknowledging Macross or the Macross world or anything
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Macross, really.</li>
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<li>(-) Super-powerful rebellion, which manages to be even stronger than a
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super-country army + navy.</li>
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<li>(-) MURRICA, FUCK YEAH!</li>
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<li>(+) Good descriptions of the action, even with the huge amount of cruft in
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them.</li>
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<li>(=) Weak sci-fi, even if the world is "sci" in a way -- which could be
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related to the Macross-but-not-Macross thingy.</li>
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<p>Mars, under the influence of the huge "UNITED STATES OF FUCKING AMERICA" (not
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actual title, but actual feeling given by the author), is being terraformed.
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But rebels, which think America diverted from the forefathers ideals, think
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it's better to move to somewhere else and make the "REAL AMERICA" (again, not
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actual description in the book, but feeling given by the rebel characters).</p>
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<p>What happens is a clusterfuck of information and lack of information at the
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same time: It starts with one event, in which the backstory is giving in long,
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incredible tiring paragraphs of text, and then some action happens and the
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initial event is mostly ignored. What did happen? Oh, a glimpse! And then...
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nothing.</p>
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<p>"Incredible, tiring paragraphs" is a nice way to put "wall of text". Instead
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of focusing in some point, the paragraph starts and then derails on into some
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backstory, character development or some stupid description of something
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instead of focusing on what it started. So the next paragraph -- which is,
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again, another wall of text -- picks up and then derails again.</p>
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<p>In those walls of text, there is some Macross, and by that I mean there are
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actual descriptions of the Valkyries robots, which turn from plane to robot
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and an "in between" mode. But they are never called Valkyries, the world of
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Macross is never acknowledged or mentioned. Simply, the design for the massive
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weapons are "borrowed" from the series, without ever making any connection
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with it.</p>
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<p>And, while we are talking about the weapons, the descriptions put a massive
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army of robots against another huge army of robots. Now, think with me: You have
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an army. A well funded army. By a country that loves the army. And then you
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have some rebels, that don't have the proper tech or research for creating
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such weapons. Which side do you think would amass a larger numerical
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advantage? THE REBELS, OBVIOUSLY! /facepalm Sure, they found a way to
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interrupt the well-funded, well-researched army communication at the start,
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but even with that, the well-funded, well-researched army would simply be too
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large for that to even be a problem. But, then again, the well-funded,
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well-researched army gets almost completely obliterated in the end. Suuuure.</p>
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<p>There is a series for this book -- in which it is the very first one -- but
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considering how tiring it is to read, how bullshittery the "MURRICA, FUCK
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YEAH" feeling it passes around, the absurdity of rebels amassing a force
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stronger than the whole "MURRICA, FUCK YEAH" army and navy, I'm not sure I
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actually want to read the next chapter.</p>
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