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Battle for Mars #1-3
The Complete Battle For Mars Series
This ebook is available in Kindle Unlimited.The Battle For Mars technothriller series chronicles the clash between two countries to learn the secrets hidden on Mars. This realistic sci-fi thriller, which could be the subject of tomorrow’s headlines, will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Four SpaceX colonists are doomed to die in Mars orbit unless visionary entrepreneurial billionaire Chase Konrad can save them. The Daedalus Mission, which is the first book in the series, develops into something far more mysterious and deadly than Konrad expects. And the follow-on missions that result from it, the X-ray, Omega, and Tango missions, will shock you with their revelations of what really could be on Mars. Sub-genre anthology, technothriller, space opera, first contact, exploration, colonization, hard science fiction.
642 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 20, 2023
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February 1, 2024
The First Manned Mission to Mars...didn't think to bring a camera. Not even a cellphone.
This is just a small element of continuing stupidity of a supposedly Genius Tech Giant and reluctant astronaut as he flies his own starship to Mars and wages war against the murderous, villainous & monstrously 1-dimensional CHINESE.
Sometimes, when you read a book and a supposedly intelligent character does something foolish, you cal pass it off as a poor decision made in the heat of the moment. But when nearly EVERY decision the characters make are ignorant and foolhardy, and they only succeed against extreme odds due to Luck or their enemy being even MORE foolish - then you have to suspect that it is the Writer who is ignorant, and in this case at least: a racist Chinaphobe.
Elon Musk is also made to look a bit foolish and cowardly, as fellow Tech Billionaire owner of Space-X, who gets no dialogue in this slightly futuristic farce.
SPOILER:
I'm in the middle of the 2nd book and, following a monstrously DUMB decision to use a tungsten-firing railgun cannon to open up an ancient alien flying saucer's "electronics" panels, I'm not sure I can continue to waste my time seeped in more moronic writing - and continually demonizing the Chinese.
This is just a small element of continuing stupidity of a supposedly Genius Tech Giant and reluctant astronaut as he flies his own starship to Mars and wages war against the murderous, villainous & monstrously 1-dimensional CHINESE.
Sometimes, when you read a book and a supposedly intelligent character does something foolish, you cal pass it off as a poor decision made in the heat of the moment. But when nearly EVERY decision the characters make are ignorant and foolhardy, and they only succeed against extreme odds due to Luck or their enemy being even MORE foolish - then you have to suspect that it is the Writer who is ignorant, and in this case at least: a racist Chinaphobe.
Elon Musk is also made to look a bit foolish and cowardly, as fellow Tech Billionaire owner of Space-X, who gets no dialogue in this slightly futuristic farce.
SPOILER:
I'm in the middle of the 2nd book and, following a monstrously DUMB decision to use a tungsten-firing railgun cannon to open up an ancient alien flying saucer's "electronics" panels, I'm not sure I can continue to waste my time seeped in more moronic writing - and continually demonizing the Chinese.
September 9, 2025
3.5/5
This was a very middle of the road story for me. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything to rave about. It provides a solid story that and I think it tries to provide the "competency porn" found in something like Andy Weir's "The Martian". One thing that I found pretty annoying was how one-dimensional the primary antagonists are for the majority of the story. It quick literally is "The Chinese". The book also is a huge propaganda piece for how much dick-riding there is for American corporations/agencies and how philanthropic our billionaire MC is. And look, I am as patriotic as any other person, it just felt a bit much with "Space X this, Space X that". Fuck we get it, their engineers are amazing, but the glazing was a bit much for my taste. Look, I did like the story is the same vein as I like junk food, as it provides sustenance and entertainment.
This was a very middle of the road story for me. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything to rave about. It provides a solid story that and I think it tries to provide the "competency porn" found in something like Andy Weir's "The Martian". One thing that I found pretty annoying was how one-dimensional the primary antagonists are for the majority of the story. It quick literally is "The Chinese". The book also is a huge propaganda piece for how much dick-riding there is for American corporations/agencies and how philanthropic our billionaire MC is. And look, I am as patriotic as any other person, it just felt a bit much with "Space X this, Space X that". Fuck we get it, their engineers are amazing, but the glazing was a bit much for my taste. Look, I did like the story is the same vein as I like junk food, as it provides sustenance and entertainment.
June 14, 2023
Good read. Well thought out.
I have enjoyed most of Mr. Wehr's books I have read. He keeps the pace of the storyline going and doesn't bog in details.
I have enjoyed most of Mr. Wehr's books I have read. He keeps the pace of the storyline going and doesn't bog in details.
December 4, 2024
This short, near future, Sci Fi trilogy was great.
Very believable and well paced.
If you're a fan of The Martian you'll love it as well.
Very believable and well paced.
If you're a fan of The Martian you'll love it as well.
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