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The Far Call
The Far Call
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Mankind has taken its first small step outward from Earth, leaving its footprints on the Moon. The next step will be many times longer and more perilous: the leap to Mars. — The Phoenix mission, a six nation effort to put an expedition on Mars, is hailed as mankind's second chance to regain the stars--a manned expedition to Mars with an internati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440122845
ISBN-10: 0440122848
Publication Date: 11/1989
Pages: 414
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Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I was kind of yawning my way through the first half of this book, but the action really picked up at around page 210. Prior to that, far too much of the characters' navel-gazing interior monologues. Only a freelance spy character kept me interested. Once the crisis hit, I couldn't put it down.
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