Downloaded for free from project gutenberg, and formatted to read on my smartphone using the free calibre software.

Pretty awful in all respects - the only saving grace that even hints at this book deserving a liberal two stars from me is the early part of the book.

Yes... it was actually fun to read the weirdly macabre opening chapter that introduced "Goat" Hennessy and his earliest scientific projects: Adam and Brute. Half-men and half-wits, Goat's children prov More...

Mars. Barsoom. Desert Planet.

After decades of human settlement, Mars remains an inhospitable place where people are confined to pressurized environments. All trade must go through the Mars Corporation, which is more interested in maximizing profits than making life comfortable for the colonists. Terraforming and adapting crops to Mars are given low priority.

Years ago, a secret organization, the Order of the Phoenix, tried to break the Mars Corp. monopoly. Their leader, Al More...