Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Red Planet: A Novel

Red Planet: A Novel
xmascarol avatar reviewed on + 261 more book reviews


The year is 2050. The world's environmental abuse can no longer be ignored. The only hope for humanity lies in whether or not Earth's nearsest neighbor is capable of sustaining human life.

Lieutenant Commander Kate Bowman is four hundred million kilometers from Earth, working desperately to repair a damaged spacecraft orbiting Mars.

Her crew is stranded on the surface below, fighting for their lives against the planet's natural hazards, and one man-made hazard-a malfunctioning robot intent on killing them.

She has been ordered to return home and leave the astronauts to their fate. But if her entire crew dies, so do Mars' secrets.

And humanity's future...