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Good books

In English

• Pompeii by Robert Harris

  A breath-taking recreation of the eruption of Pompeii in 79 AD. The story is told through known eye-vitnesses (such as Plinius) as well as invented characters.

  Even though I was reading the story out loud as a good-night tale, I still finished it in three or four days. Page-turner is definitely an appropriate description of this book. Read it! The quotes from various vulcanology text-books are helpful, but I still feel like reading up a bit on the background.

• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

  I got this book for my twenty-fifth birthday (1997.02.21). It's really good. (Otherwise it wouldn't be in this list.) Red Mars is the first of three books about the colonialisation of Mars. - I hope to get to read the other two soon.

  ISBN:

  0-553-56073-5

  Publisher:

  Bantam Books

  Price:

  6.50 USD / 8.99 CND

  From the cover:

  John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Franm Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is to give Mars an Earth-like atmosphere. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planet's surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and met the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces - for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.

  Addendum: I have read Green Mars and Blue Mars too. They continue the story in the same fine style.

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Written by:

Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@sparre-andersen.dk>

Latest update:

4th of June 2007