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The Pirates Series #2
Pirates of Mars
The pirates holding the containership Charles S. Price have a problem – with the ship’s engines dead, they’ll soon be just another crater on the Martian surface. Their solution? Call the Volunteer Space Rescue Service for help and steal Space Rescue’s ship.
But this fight is over more than just a ship and her crew – a secret cargo may hold the keys to the fate of Mars!
But this fight is over more than just a ship and her crew – a secret cargo may hold the keys to the fate of Mars!
316 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2010
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Christopher Gerrib
8 books31 followersChris Gerrib admits to being a bit obsessed with Mars, but in a healthy way. He can quit thinking about Mars any time he wants to. He wrote three novels (so far) set on or around Mars, but promises to get out of the Solar System soon. Chris still has a day job as the IT director at a Chicago-area bank, and holds degrees in history and business from the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University. He also served in the US Navy during the First Gulf War, and can proudly report that not one Iraqi MiG bombed Jacksonville, Florida while he was in the service. In his copious free time, Chris is a past President of and currently active in his local Rotary club.
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March 20, 2024
I won this book in a goodreads drawing.
When pirates screw up trying to board a spaceship, and are in danger of crashing into Mars, they call the rescue squad. Both the pirates and the rescuers find themselves in all kinds of trouble.
I came in during the middle, but still entertaining.
When pirates screw up trying to board a spaceship, and are in danger of crashing into Mars, they call the rescue squad. Both the pirates and the rescuers find themselves in all kinds of trouble.
I came in during the middle, but still entertaining.
October 20, 2013
I found Pirates of Mars a big disappointment, which is a shame because it's a rare example of a well-thought-out, near future, hard science fiction novel. Set in 2074, Gerrib lays out a Martian colonial society with a "wild West" feel that seemed quite credible to me. Moreover, the novel did an exceptionally good job of portraying realistic spaceflight with realistic astrodynamics. Spacecraft in this book move according to real physical laws: a rare feature indeed.
Unfortunately, everything that I liked about this book was in its setup and none of it in its execution. I don't require or expect realistic or well-rounded characters in speculative fiction; but the characters that populate this book were so poorly drawn and sounded so much the same that I found it actually interfered with my ability to follow the story. The writing was exceptionally clunky and often wandered over into infodump territory. Here's an example:
"He'd pre-programmed the length of the two ships into the binoculars' computer in meters. By pressing another button, the device would do some geometry and calculate the distance in kilometers."
Needless to say, this information is superfluous to the story. And even when the information isn't superfluous, it's sometimes reported oddly.
"Registering space ships had become a source of revenue for landlocked countries like Bolivia, Roger thought with a flash."
And what to make of wit like:
"The place had all the ambiance of a hospital cafeteria, which fit since it was."
or genuine oddities like:
"The Cessna 15 looked like a squat, cylindrical pyramid" -- what, you mean like a cone?
If you want to check out the incredibly awkward bondage-themed lesbian sex scene, you'll need to hunt it down yourself. Suffice to say it's the kind of adolescent smut that virgin schoolboys might write and circulate among themselves.
This is truly one of the most wretchedly written books that I've actually persevered with; and that is a testament to the inventiveness and quality of the world building and setup.
It doesn't feel great to be so critical of this book. I so want there to be more stories like this around. I just really really wish this one had been better written, because I can't recommend this to anyone. I sincerely hope though that Gerrib keeps writing and that he develops the skills to do justice to his vision.
Unfortunately, everything that I liked about this book was in its setup and none of it in its execution. I don't require or expect realistic or well-rounded characters in speculative fiction; but the characters that populate this book were so poorly drawn and sounded so much the same that I found it actually interfered with my ability to follow the story. The writing was exceptionally clunky and often wandered over into infodump territory. Here's an example:
"He'd pre-programmed the length of the two ships into the binoculars' computer in meters. By pressing another button, the device would do some geometry and calculate the distance in kilometers."
Needless to say, this information is superfluous to the story. And even when the information isn't superfluous, it's sometimes reported oddly.
"Registering space ships had become a source of revenue for landlocked countries like Bolivia, Roger thought with a flash."
And what to make of wit like:
"The place had all the ambiance of a hospital cafeteria, which fit since it was."
or genuine oddities like:
"The Cessna 15 looked like a squat, cylindrical pyramid" -- what, you mean like a cone?
If you want to check out the incredibly awkward bondage-themed lesbian sex scene, you'll need to hunt it down yourself. Suffice to say it's the kind of adolescent smut that virgin schoolboys might write and circulate among themselves.
This is truly one of the most wretchedly written books that I've actually persevered with; and that is a testament to the inventiveness and quality of the world building and setup.
It doesn't feel great to be so critical of this book. I so want there to be more stories like this around. I just really really wish this one had been better written, because I can't recommend this to anyone. I sincerely hope though that Gerrib keeps writing and that he develops the skills to do justice to his vision.
September 3, 2015
ABR's original Pirates of Mars audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.
Pirates of Mars by Chris Gerrib was a fast paced sci-fi novel. Life on Mars is what I would picture life in Australia was like in the 1800’s when convicts were sent there to live. Rough, uncivilized and full of the criminal element or those seeking a better life. Life on Mars was similar – rough, uncivilized to a great degree and full of opportunistic seeking people where they even charge for air!
Peter Grant, Lieutenant of the Volunteer Rescue Station, is but one of the latest captured by the Pirates seeking riches in gold, guns and other items. The pirates seek ransom not only for the ship but for Peter Grant. Jack Williams of the Volunteer Space Rescue Corp doesn’t take kindly to leaving Peter Grant behind. The Space Rescue is infamous for paying ransoms, but this time there is no money to be pay out nor is there an arsenal to launch a full scale rescue. As a result, Williams implements a rescue mission to kidnap Peter Grant back with friends at the helm!
The plot was fast paced and easy to follow. Character development lacked with the rescue team but the pirates, there was a bit more. The pirate women were all strong and “do it themselves” type of women where men just weren’t needed to rescue them.
Overall, the book was fun and fast with a few interesting twists. If you love sci-fi fantasy with a futuristic taste, this is a good listen for you.
Gary McKenzie did a good job of reading the book but it was obvious he was reading it and not performing it. There was little to no distinction to the different characters through his voice.
Production was fine; I had no issues with it.
Audiobook provided for review by the author.
Pirates of Mars by Chris Gerrib was a fast paced sci-fi novel. Life on Mars is what I would picture life in Australia was like in the 1800’s when convicts were sent there to live. Rough, uncivilized and full of the criminal element or those seeking a better life. Life on Mars was similar – rough, uncivilized to a great degree and full of opportunistic seeking people where they even charge for air!
Peter Grant, Lieutenant of the Volunteer Rescue Station, is but one of the latest captured by the Pirates seeking riches in gold, guns and other items. The pirates seek ransom not only for the ship but for Peter Grant. Jack Williams of the Volunteer Space Rescue Corp doesn’t take kindly to leaving Peter Grant behind. The Space Rescue is infamous for paying ransoms, but this time there is no money to be pay out nor is there an arsenal to launch a full scale rescue. As a result, Williams implements a rescue mission to kidnap Peter Grant back with friends at the helm!
The plot was fast paced and easy to follow. Character development lacked with the rescue team but the pirates, there was a bit more. The pirate women were all strong and “do it themselves” type of women where men just weren’t needed to rescue them.
Overall, the book was fun and fast with a few interesting twists. If you love sci-fi fantasy with a futuristic taste, this is a good listen for you.
Gary McKenzie did a good job of reading the book but it was obvious he was reading it and not performing it. There was little to no distinction to the different characters through his voice.
Production was fine; I had no issues with it.
Audiobook provided for review by the author.
August 3, 2016
Since my early teens I’ve been a lover of all things sci-fi, especially stuff relating to exploration of the solar system. So I was pleased to get my hands on Chris Gerrib’s Pirates of Mars.
The cover art, evocative of pulp sci-fi of the sixties and seventies, is a nice touch. The story has a feel evocative of a lot of classic science fiction. In short—a sparsely settled Mars, dotted with small settlements, some of which have a wild-west feel, is base to pirate outfits, which have been hijacking incoming spacecraft, then extorting ransom from the companies and insurers.
Gerrib makes an interesting choice by opening the story from the point of view of one of the pirates, Rachel Storey, a former art-history major who also happens to be a skilled pilot. The story almost lost me in the first chapter because I didn’t have a lot of sympathy for pirates who are willingly killing people for profit. That said, very shortly we are introduced to the Volunteer Space Rescue Service, an outfit which initially specialized in assisting survivors on troubled spacecraft, but more recently has been more and more involved in dealing with the results of increasing piracy.
With solid pacing, interesting and sympathetic characters and a fascinating premise, Pirates of Mars is a winning story. I’ll be looking for more titles from Chris Gerrib.
The cover art, evocative of pulp sci-fi of the sixties and seventies, is a nice touch. The story has a feel evocative of a lot of classic science fiction. In short—a sparsely settled Mars, dotted with small settlements, some of which have a wild-west feel, is base to pirate outfits, which have been hijacking incoming spacecraft, then extorting ransom from the companies and insurers.
Gerrib makes an interesting choice by opening the story from the point of view of one of the pirates, Rachel Storey, a former art-history major who also happens to be a skilled pilot. The story almost lost me in the first chapter because I didn’t have a lot of sympathy for pirates who are willingly killing people for profit. That said, very shortly we are introduced to the Volunteer Space Rescue Service, an outfit which initially specialized in assisting survivors on troubled spacecraft, but more recently has been more and more involved in dealing with the results of increasing piracy.
With solid pacing, interesting and sympathetic characters and a fascinating premise, Pirates of Mars is a winning story. I’ll be looking for more titles from Chris Gerrib.
January 18, 2024
Our story starts with Rachel, an unwilling pirate pilot and struggling holder of a wildly unsuitable academic degree. I felt immediate kinship, but sad to say my sympathetic perspective didn’t quite manage to last the duration of the book. It was certainly an interesting opening though! The pirating goes wrong and they crash their linked-up ships in mid-pirate, and call the rescue guys.
This action-packed start sets the scene for a story with some nice conflict and a steady narrative drive. Gunfights and other excitement in one plot thread, Sean (Yeargan?) with spin sickness and a dead son in another, different folks with different motivations, all of them inexorably on a collision course even if it takes us mears to get there.
Mears are “Mars years”, about two Earth years. I kinda liked that.
I also liked the little pop culture references (Aguilera and Spears, Boris Yeltsin, Denise Richards) that were slipped in there, I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. So, to the plot:
Well, it’s a pirate classic. A band of space pirates bite off a bit more than they can chew with a military-grade missile heist, a generally inoffensive nonprofit rescue organisation gets a little extra ginger in their tea when a man on a vendetta steps in with the aim of Javert-ing the shit out of all pirates, and also there’s a Republic of the White Race that’s set up a little supremacist commune on Olympus Mons.
All the pieces are excellent. I did have a bit of an issue with some of the characters, their names and descriptions and roles being a bit hard to keep track of. Williams, Jack, Janet, Kelly (Jack Kelly?), Mikey (Janet’s son?), Peter Grant … they all felt kind of interchangeable. Fencl and Mfume were great names, but they didn’t get a lot to do with those excellent names. The Republic of the White Race was suitably gross in their opinions about n-words, which I suppose tracks, and the cover story they came up with for one dude so he could fit in there was nothing short of a cringey masterpiece.
Naturally the heist and everything else goes pear-shaped, a degenerating sequence of events ably illustrated by the increasing revealingness of Janet’s clothes (sorry), but dang if it wasn’t an entertaining read. Perhaps the most interesting thing, from my perspective, was that I was firmly of the opinion at the start of the book that Rachel was a misunderstood and potentially great main character, but at the end of the book my final note was, “they didn’t kill Rachel which is a stupid fucking mistake and that was strike three for this book.”
Of course I mellowed on reflection and the motley crew of sketchy characters setup is clear – it’s going to make for some excellent tensions and hijinks down the line. This book was mainly setup, which leaves me wondering what the “first” book in the Pirates Trilogy was … anyway my point is, I like a good solid comeuppance at the end of a book where people get dicked around, but an acceptable alternative is a non-comeuppance with promise. And Pirates of Mars delivered.
Sex-o-meter
With a reference to poly marriage, a bit of male gaze on a scantily-clad schoolgirl type and – as previously mentioned – Janet, this is something of a raunchy piece of work but it wasn’t upsetting, just – humans being humans, largely. Mikey is a rape baby and the backstory there might be distressing for some readers. Bam Bam also has tiddies and Rachel scores with her a bit. Janet is more than a little bit of a shitshow and fucks a dude while her baby (step)daddy is a hostage, oh and the dude she manages to fuck just happens to be the bloke who left him to be a hostage (and that … didn’t seem to actually come up as a character moment?), and … well, like I say, humans being humans. There’s sex, but very little of it is particularly sexy. We’ll give it a War of the Worlds out of a possible Mars Attacks!. I don’t know what either of those have to do with sex exactly, but I guess Mars was there and … in the end the solution was just people being their usual weird kind-of-crummy selves? Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe I’m looking at the WTF-o-meter instead of the sex-o-meter. Yeah, that’s what it is.
Gore-o-meter
Aside from the usual gunfights and space battles, we get some contemplation of suicide which might again be upsetting to some readers. Nothing too explicitly gory, though, really. One and a half flesh-gobbets out of a possible five.
WTF-o-meter
There’s no WTF in this one, since it is a straight-up grimy pirates-and-their-foes tale set in the middle-distant-future colonised Mars region. Nothing wrong with a bit of standard spaceships-and-action stuff. The sex-o-meter is giving three large throbbing Johns Carter of Mars out of a possible Ghosts of Mars for Pirates of Mars. Uh. In terms of WTF. Sorry, this has been a fuck-up from beginning to end frankly.
My Final Verdict
The dialogue and individual scenes are good, immersive, and snappy. The descriptive scenes are a bit iffy on occasion, and the way the story hangs together overall could maybe use a bit of pacing work? But I was drawn into each scene, and into the experiences of certain of the characters, sufficiently to enjoy it anyway. There could have been another editorial pass. The author calls McNally “NcNally” a few times, and says “then” instead of “than” quite a lot. Three stars!
This action-packed start sets the scene for a story with some nice conflict and a steady narrative drive. Gunfights and other excitement in one plot thread, Sean (Yeargan?) with spin sickness and a dead son in another, different folks with different motivations, all of them inexorably on a collision course even if it takes us mears to get there.
Mears are “Mars years”, about two Earth years. I kinda liked that.
I also liked the little pop culture references (Aguilera and Spears, Boris Yeltsin, Denise Richards) that were slipped in there, I’m a sucker for that sort of thing. So, to the plot:
Well, it’s a pirate classic. A band of space pirates bite off a bit more than they can chew with a military-grade missile heist, a generally inoffensive nonprofit rescue organisation gets a little extra ginger in their tea when a man on a vendetta steps in with the aim of Javert-ing the shit out of all pirates, and also there’s a Republic of the White Race that’s set up a little supremacist commune on Olympus Mons.
All the pieces are excellent. I did have a bit of an issue with some of the characters, their names and descriptions and roles being a bit hard to keep track of. Williams, Jack, Janet, Kelly (Jack Kelly?), Mikey (Janet’s son?), Peter Grant … they all felt kind of interchangeable. Fencl and Mfume were great names, but they didn’t get a lot to do with those excellent names. The Republic of the White Race was suitably gross in their opinions about n-words, which I suppose tracks, and the cover story they came up with for one dude so he could fit in there was nothing short of a cringey masterpiece.
Naturally the heist and everything else goes pear-shaped, a degenerating sequence of events ably illustrated by the increasing revealingness of Janet’s clothes (sorry), but dang if it wasn’t an entertaining read. Perhaps the most interesting thing, from my perspective, was that I was firmly of the opinion at the start of the book that Rachel was a misunderstood and potentially great main character, but at the end of the book my final note was, “they didn’t kill Rachel which is a stupid fucking mistake and that was strike three for this book.”
Of course I mellowed on reflection and the motley crew of sketchy characters setup is clear – it’s going to make for some excellent tensions and hijinks down the line. This book was mainly setup, which leaves me wondering what the “first” book in the Pirates Trilogy was … anyway my point is, I like a good solid comeuppance at the end of a book where people get dicked around, but an acceptable alternative is a non-comeuppance with promise. And Pirates of Mars delivered.
Sex-o-meter
With a reference to poly marriage, a bit of male gaze on a scantily-clad schoolgirl type and – as previously mentioned – Janet, this is something of a raunchy piece of work but it wasn’t upsetting, just – humans being humans, largely. Mikey is a rape baby and the backstory there might be distressing for some readers. Bam Bam also has tiddies and Rachel scores with her a bit. Janet is more than a little bit of a shitshow and fucks a dude while her baby (step)daddy is a hostage, oh and the dude she manages to fuck just happens to be the bloke who left him to be a hostage (and that … didn’t seem to actually come up as a character moment?), and … well, like I say, humans being humans. There’s sex, but very little of it is particularly sexy. We’ll give it a War of the Worlds out of a possible Mars Attacks!. I don’t know what either of those have to do with sex exactly, but I guess Mars was there and … in the end the solution was just people being their usual weird kind-of-crummy selves? Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe I’m looking at the WTF-o-meter instead of the sex-o-meter. Yeah, that’s what it is.
Gore-o-meter
Aside from the usual gunfights and space battles, we get some contemplation of suicide which might again be upsetting to some readers. Nothing too explicitly gory, though, really. One and a half flesh-gobbets out of a possible five.
WTF-o-meter
There’s no WTF in this one, since it is a straight-up grimy pirates-and-their-foes tale set in the middle-distant-future colonised Mars region. Nothing wrong with a bit of standard spaceships-and-action stuff. The sex-o-meter is giving three large throbbing Johns Carter of Mars out of a possible Ghosts of Mars for Pirates of Mars. Uh. In terms of WTF. Sorry, this has been a fuck-up from beginning to end frankly.
My Final Verdict
The dialogue and individual scenes are good, immersive, and snappy. The descriptive scenes are a bit iffy on occasion, and the way the story hangs together overall could maybe use a bit of pacing work? But I was drawn into each scene, and into the experiences of certain of the characters, sufficiently to enjoy it anyway. There could have been another editorial pass. The author calls McNally “NcNally” a few times, and says “then” instead of “than” quite a lot. Three stars!
March 19, 2012
Almost a reverse heist story, it was a quick read, but it never quite gelled for me. I've read worse, but I'd have trouble recommending it - I think there would be something better no matter what aspect (sci-fi, cops and robbers, characters) you're looking for.
August 27, 2018
It was entertaining enough to finish but I did have to start flipping through pages when the endless fighting on the ships went on and on. In fact, I had to skim almost the last 25% of the book just to get to the end to see how everything turned out. No surprises, of course. And someone REALLY needs to do grammar and spelling checks on these books! There is a difference between "then" and "than."
September 24, 2021
Entertaining story about life at the far end of the future supply change near Mars. There's a large cast of characters--pirates, Space Rescue personnel, a woman who lot her boyfriend to pirates. Their paths cross and the need to decide how much they're willing to risk and what lines they're willing to cross.
January 3, 2015
This not-so-far-future scifi story has humans settled on Mars and up to nefarious deeds. The pirates of Mars are quite a mixed crew (which was entertaining) who end up kidnapping a volunteer space rescue man (Peter). But his agency doesn’t have the funds to ransom him. Luckily, he has friends who improvise a rescue. Over all, the book had a Wild West feel to it, kind of a nod to the TV series Firefly.
Once the characters were set, there wasn’t much growth. But that was OK as this was a fast-paced action flick. I really liked that none of the women were wall flowers or simply there for pretty scenery. There was a lesbian sex scene which could be a bonus or a distraction depending on your view on sex in books. For me, the sex scene was OK, bringing a slight heat to my cheeks but nothing beyond that.
There’s plenty of fun tech in ships and weapons and protective gear. I don’t need it all to be true to life functional for me to enjoy the story. I was a bit skeptical of the human race being capable of having Mars settled and infested with pirates by 2074. But that was easy to set aside and simply pretend it was 2274 instead.
The storyline was predictable but for a quick action flick, I wasn’t looking for any deep mystery or great twists and turns. Over all, I would give this book a solid 3 out of 5 stars. My biggest issue was with the narration.
Narration: I hate being negative in my reviews, but I have to be honest and say that this was a pretty rough narration. McKenzie had a limited range in voice, so many of the characters blended together. His feminine voice was almost non-existent (which was an issue as about half the cast were ladies). Also, I could occasionally hear the pages being turned as he narrated. There were some words that were pronounced oddly and I had to stop and puzzle out what he meant. Also, his words were not always clear. For example, one of the characters is named Jack. So several times there is this phrased, ‘Jack asked….’. Well, the ‘asked’ part was not enunciated so it often sounded like ‘jackass’ and I thought the characters were joking with each other or insulting each other, when in fact Jack was being inquisitive. I felt that the story was being announced, like in some sports announcer voice, for much of the book. With such a narration, I have to rate the audiobook lower than 3 stars.
Once the characters were set, there wasn’t much growth. But that was OK as this was a fast-paced action flick. I really liked that none of the women were wall flowers or simply there for pretty scenery. There was a lesbian sex scene which could be a bonus or a distraction depending on your view on sex in books. For me, the sex scene was OK, bringing a slight heat to my cheeks but nothing beyond that.
There’s plenty of fun tech in ships and weapons and protective gear. I don’t need it all to be true to life functional for me to enjoy the story. I was a bit skeptical of the human race being capable of having Mars settled and infested with pirates by 2074. But that was easy to set aside and simply pretend it was 2274 instead.
The storyline was predictable but for a quick action flick, I wasn’t looking for any deep mystery or great twists and turns. Over all, I would give this book a solid 3 out of 5 stars. My biggest issue was with the narration.
Narration: I hate being negative in my reviews, but I have to be honest and say that this was a pretty rough narration. McKenzie had a limited range in voice, so many of the characters blended together. His feminine voice was almost non-existent (which was an issue as about half the cast were ladies). Also, I could occasionally hear the pages being turned as he narrated. There were some words that were pronounced oddly and I had to stop and puzzle out what he meant. Also, his words were not always clear. For example, one of the characters is named Jack. So several times there is this phrased, ‘Jack asked….’. Well, the ‘asked’ part was not enunciated so it often sounded like ‘jackass’ and I thought the characters were joking with each other or insulting each other, when in fact Jack was being inquisitive. I felt that the story was being announced, like in some sports announcer voice, for much of the book. With such a narration, I have to rate the audiobook lower than 3 stars.
Did not finish
March 22, 2026I received a copy of this ebook from Goodreads to read and review, I can't really call it an early review book since it's been out since 2010.
I am DNFing this book, I tried but I just can't read it. In the books defense this is book two of a trilogy, and I made the mistake of thinking it was book one and it is possible that it would have gone over better if I had read the first book before this.
I didn't find the world that interesting, and I disliked every single character that had any dialog and I am just not in the headspace to muscle my way through it.
If the book series interests you I definitely recommend starting with the first book the way you are supposed to, and hopefully you won't have my experience.
I am DNFing this book, I tried but I just can't read it. In the books defense this is book two of a trilogy, and I made the mistake of thinking it was book one and it is possible that it would have gone over better if I had read the first book before this.
I didn't find the world that interesting, and I disliked every single character that had any dialog and I am just not in the headspace to muscle my way through it.
If the book series interests you I definitely recommend starting with the first book the way you are supposed to, and hopefully you won't have my experience.
October 2, 2012
I'm not sure how to explain this book. I liked the initial premise, which is why I continued to the end, but it was very very hard to read.
I felt there was a lot of minor characters added and made things hard to follow. Most of the major ones I really liked though (Janet, Kelly, Minty, Rachael, etc).
Perspective jumped quite suddenly at times (may have been an e-reader artifact) and helped to get me lost.
Even sometimes just the writing felt forced/run-on/needs editing.
I would not recommend it, but overall I did like the story, just not a lot of the details / story telling.
I felt there was a lot of minor characters added and made things hard to follow. Most of the major ones I really liked though (Janet, Kelly, Minty, Rachael, etc).
Perspective jumped quite suddenly at times (may have been an e-reader artifact) and helped to get me lost.
Even sometimes just the writing felt forced/run-on/needs editing.
I would not recommend it, but overall I did like the story, just not a lot of the details / story telling.
June 13, 2012
Kent McDaniel at Windy City Reviews says "The book calls out for a sequel and for a movie adaptation."
You can read the rest of the review at the link.
You can read the rest of the review at the link.
July 14, 2014
It's pirates. On Mars. They board space ships and steal their cargo (or the ship itself). Sometimes they take prisoners, and that's what got them into trouble this time. This book is totally plot-driven with paper-thin characters. It was a fun diversion, though.
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