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    <body><![CDATA[Not Red Mars...if you have limited time...concentration on the RED/GREEN/BLUE Mars bookes]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a very satisfying &quot;companion&quot; to the outstanding Mars Trilogy, these short stories are alternately irrelevant or apocryphal to the events in the novels.  Worse, they mostly cannot stand on their own merits -- with a story about climbing Olympus Mons the only notable exception.  Disappo...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was OK.  Nowhere near as good as the original trilogy, but a good filler on several of the key characters, as well as amusing stories about Mars lore.<br/><br/>One highlight was the Mars Constitution, all laid out.  Inspirational.]]></body>
    
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