false 2407022 3 Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime they are going to Mars Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel, an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first 2414193 5 8 2008 Marsbound total:103|5:4|4:33|3:44|2:19|1:3| 103 325 165 36 4 2 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 19:28:04 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 21:40:59 -0800 2008 Marsbound invokes Heinlein at many turns, not least in its nod to Podkayne of Mars (including the female teen narrator with a younger brother and their adventures on Mars). The style is similar to Heinlein's juvenile novels, but with frank sexual intrusions that would be more characteristic of...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 08:04:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:42:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 19:56:17 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 20:04:31 -0700 2009
It's told first-person by an 18 year old (unfortunately for my perspective, since I just recently read Scalzi's Zoe's Tale) who often seems much more juvenile than her age an...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:45:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:45:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 06:17:51 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 06:21:43 -0800 2008 1
18-year-old Carmen and her family have been selected to participate in the Mars Project - living on the planet's outpost for 5 years. When they arrive, Carmen attracts the ire of one of the post's ad...more...]]> 0 0 false true Mon Oct 05 09:14:44 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 09:21:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 20 05:55:17 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 10:03:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 14:43:23 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 11:15:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:33:04 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 09:40:13 -0700 2009 The book is best for t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 11:36:45 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 11:43:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 05:53:33 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 05:53:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 05:24:45 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 05:27:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 05:31:41 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 14:53:48 -0700 2008
I didn't change the "book description" on Goodreads (despite the fact that I CAN) because it's word for word from the flyleaf...but it has little to do with what the book is actually about...or even the plot of t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 13:18:04 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 08:35:27 -0700 2009 1 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 07:13:19 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 07:13:19 -0800 2009
This book is like Heinlein's Red Mars, but all grown up.]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 15:52:24 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 17:54:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 11:20:33 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 22:14:09 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 15:07:41 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 15:07:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:53:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:53:57 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 14:21:14 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 14:22:16 -0800 2008