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Founding of the Federation #1
First Steps
Book 1 details the First Steps of the Irons family to kick start mankind to the stars. They and several heroes of future space flight take on and do the impossible, build a program to explore and settle the red planet in a very short time period. Along the way they dig up old and invent new technology to overcome the many problems facing them. Mario and his wife are forced to take his brother's place when he is viciously attacked moments before launch. The team must overcome many problems, weather, radiation, and politics to get the colony started. Along the way they must divert an asteroid which has some far reaching consequences. Mankind will never be the same after the Mario brothers come on the scene!
- GenresScience Fiction
326 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 9, 2010
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September 16, 2017
The problem here is while the concept story has merit, and possibly so does the technology and science, the writing is crap.
Damon Runyon can write run-on sentences, James Joyce can write stream of conscious. Because they are damn great writers. Hecht has problems with sentence construction. With fragments, with points of view, with dialogue tagging. All pointing to the fact that this book needed many editors to turn the story into readability. If errors like this drive you crazy, stay away.
Damon Runyon can write run-on sentences, James Joyce can write stream of conscious. Because they are damn great writers. Hecht has problems with sentence construction. With fragments, with points of view, with dialogue tagging. All pointing to the fact that this book needed many editors to turn the story into readability. If errors like this drive you crazy, stay away.
June 18, 2021
Nice series, from an author that really likes sci-fi. On the other hand, this series is a prequel and reads more like a summary, eg large parts of the story are just described, not fictionalised. And too much is wasted in interludes among characters, adding nothing to the plot but much to the number of pages. Probably a collateral damage from watching too much TV series..
June 5, 2017
Interesting book.
September 14, 2015
Fascinating!!!
Simply awesome in its ingenuity. This is something we could do in the next few decades, or at least get started on. But humanity will never be able to come together to accomplish it without some terrible event catalyzing us into orbit we are too wrapped up in our own microcosm and have stopped looking up at the stars in wonder(as a species). I despair for all the wonders that will be lost is we don't GET OFF OUR A$$ and work together.
Simply awesome in its ingenuity. This is something we could do in the next few decades, or at least get started on. But humanity will never be able to come together to accomplish it without some terrible event catalyzing us into orbit we are too wrapped up in our own microcosm and have stopped looking up at the stars in wonder(as a species). I despair for all the wonders that will be lost is we don't GET OFF OUR A$$ and work together.
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