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3.7 KiB
75 lines
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title = "One Day On Mars - Travis S. Taylor"
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date = 2019-12-13
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "reviews", "travis s taylor", "sci-fi", "mars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20638066-one-day-on-mars):
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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.
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Ok, let's try something different here:
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* (-) Long paragraphs, that just make things hard to read and with lots of
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useless information, sometimes, running out of topic.
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* (-) Macross, without acknowledging Macross or the Macross world or anything
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Macross, really.
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* (-) Super-powerful rebellion, which manages to be even stronger than a
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super-country army + navy.
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* (-) MURRICA, FUCK YEAH!
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* (+) Good descriptions of the action, even with the huge amount of cruft in
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them.
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* (=) 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.
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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 title in the title, but feeling given by the rebel characters).
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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 we 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.
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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.
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