| Title | : | Mars Nation 1 (Mars Trilogy #1) |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
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| Publication | : | First published November 29, 2018 |
But the four astronauts of the NASA crew are not the only ones with this destination. The privately financed ‘Mars for Everyone’ initiative has also targeted the Red Planet. Twenty men and women have been selected to live there and establish the first extraterrestrial settlement.
Challenges arise even before they reach Mars orbit. The MfE spaceship Santa Maria is damaged along the way. Only the four NASA astronauts can intervene and try to save their lives.
No one anticipates the impending catastrophe that threatens their very existence—not to speak of the daily hurdles that an extended stay on an alien planet sets before them. On Mars, a struggle begins for limited resources, human cooperation, and just plain survival.
Mars Nation 1 (Mars Trilogy #1) Reviews
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Meiner Meinung markiert diese Geschichte (Ob des Umfangs eher eine Novelle als ein Roman) den Höhepunkt der schriftstellerischen Arbeit des Autors. Ein Marsroman, der irgendwie ein Zwischending zwischen "Der Marsianer" von Andy Weir und "Roter Mars" von Kim Stanley Robinson ist. Der Mars wird besucht, eine NASA-Expedition mit 4 Personen richtet eine Marsbasis ein, bis nach einem Jahr die Ablösung der Crew stattfinden soll. Außerdem ist die (nach dem Vorbild von Mars One, die von dem holländischen Fernsehkonzern Endemol ins Leben gerufen wurde) private One-Way-Expedition Mars für Alle (MFA) unterwegs zum Mars um ihn zu besiedeln. Allerdings kommt das Raumschiff in Schwierigkeiten, offenbar durch Sabotage, 5 Raumfahrer sterben. Um das Leben der restlichen Besatzung zu retten, müssen die NASA-Leute ihr Raumschiff vom Mars starten und die Leute aus der Raumnot retten, obwohl sie dabei selbst die Möglichkeit zur Rückkehr zur Erde verbauen, weil der Treibstoff dafür nun verbraucht wird. Aber mit ihrer Ablösung sollte sich das Problem lösen lassen. Aber die Erde verstummt. Was genau passiert ist, bleibt bis zum Ende der Geschichte im Dunkel, somit ist auch die NASA-Besatzung auf dem Mars gestrandet. Die MFA-Leute wollen, trotz aller Probleme, den Plan ihre Mars-Station durchführen, auch wenn sie dabei die Resourcen ihrer Retter entwenden müssen, zumindest denkt ihre Anführerin das...
Brandon Q. Morris, bzw. Matthias Matting schafft es, wie seine Vorbilder Andy Weir und Kim Stanley Robinson, die faszinierenden Landschaften des Mars zu beschreiben, eingebettet in einem Thriller mit den unterschiedlichsten Charakteren, einer unbekannten Bedrohung innerhalb der Gruppe, viel glaubhafter Hard Science um das Überleben auf einem lebensfeindlichen Planeten und dem Versuch, ihn zu terraformen. Der Horizont über die nächsten beiden Bände der Trilogie ist gelegt, weil zwei weitere Raumschiffe auf dem Weg zum Mars sind, eine, von Milliardären finanzierte, private Expedition und eine chinesische Expedition, die offenbar in letzter Sekunde die Erde verlassen hat. Warum die Erde schweigt, das wird auch Thema der nächsten Bände sein. Auf jeden Fall hat Morris ein faszinierendes Setting für seine Mars-Trilogie geschaffen, ohne den Humor von Andy Weir und ohne die schriftstellerische Qualität und die politisch-soziologischen Aufarbeitungen von Kim Stanley Robinson, trotzdem aber eine (für deutsche Verhältnisse) herausragende Mars-Besiedelungs-Geschichte... -
An interesting book, but not a series I intend to read more of - having read the preview of book 2 at the end, and then the blurbs online for books 2 and 3 it seems this is going in a direction I don't want to follow.
All communications with Earth is lost except for a ship here or there, and yet no one can tell them what happened?
Don't mind me, I'm just going to steal all your stuff? Oh, and kill people. Because the program psychologists were just that awful at their jobs..... So far as I can tell, there are multiple characters with mental health issues. It's a bit odd that these are the people selected to go to Mars. -
Gute Unterhaltung!
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Going from regular science fiction to this real world version was a bit jarring, but after a couple chapters I was hooked!
Already into Book 2 and it just keeps getting better! -
No me merece la pena ni dedicar tiempo a reseñar este libro, me parece malo a todos los niveles y aunque forme parte de una trilogía (creo) no es motivo para cerrar de la forma tan abrupta en la que lo hace. Solo deja preguntas sin resolver.
Mi interés en saber la solución no pasa por leer el segundo libro, lo siento Marte, en esta ocasión te quedarás donde estabas. -
Was hab ich da gehört...hätte ich nicht Hörbuchmangel gehabt hätte ich das definitiv abgebrochen. Die Geschichte an sich war nicht schlecht, würde ich auch gerne noch weiter erfahren (dieser Teil 1 hat quasi mitten im Satz aufgehört) wären da nicht diese furchtbar grauenhaften charaktere. Mein gott sind die ätzend,sexistisch und bescheuert. Gut dass das Hörbuch geschenkt war....
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Hard Science Fiction? Where?
An okay book, the storyline is full of twist and turns and proceeds along at a reasonable rate, but I only found one brief section that could be called hard science fiction and that was early in the book. -
En un futuro cercano, los primeros humanos llegan a Marte. Un grupo de la NASA aterriza para quedar la primera base permanente en el planeta rojo, todo parece ocurrir conforme lo planeado hasta que llega una señal de auxilio.
En la tierra hay un grupo que piensa qué Marte no debe ser conquistado ni por los gobiernos cómo lo que representa la NASA, y por las empresas qué es lo que representa el grupo de spacex, que también planea una misión a Marte.
Hay un grupo de listas logra obtener recursos suficientes para colonizar Marte, con donativos, equipo de segunda mano, y soportando las condiciones.
Sin embargo algo sale mal al llegar a Marte y se ven en la necesidad de solicitar ayuda a la NASA.
Así comienza la colonización de Marte. Con dos grupos de ideas opuestas.
cuando apenas comienzan a intentar trabajar juntos ocurre un desastre en la tierra de causas desconocidas. Y los nuevos colonos se dan cuenta de que están completamente aislados, y no cuento con nadie más para sobrevivir.
Pantallas hay un traidor que no desea que la colonia sobreviva.
Y poco después recibí una llamada, el grupo patrocinado por spacex y Qué representa intereses corporativos también está a punto de llegar a Marte, y con los recursos que cuentan parece sentirse dueños del lugar.
Esta es una muy interesante novela de Morris, que nunca deja que nos olvidemos de la importancia de la tecnología y de los pobres y capacidades que nos da. Y de los frágiles que somos los seres humanos sin ella.
El ser humano no sólo debe enfrentarse a la naturaleza, sino también a otros seres humanos para poder sobrevivir. -
Die Geschichte fängt an auf dem Mars, wo die ersten Menschen gelandet sind. Es war eine offizielle NASA-Mission. Es ist jedoch auch eine inoffizielle, aber idealistische Mission unterwegs. Es ist eine Mission, die durch Crowdfunding mit nur einer Einwegreise finanziert wird. Die Besatzung bleibt auf dem Mars. Dann passiert ein Unfall, die Hälfte der Besatzung wird getötet. Eine Landung ist nicht mehr möglich. Das NASA-Team hilft dabei, die verbleibende Besatzung auf die Marsoberfläche zu bringen. Ein weiterer Fall von Manipulationen scheint aufzutreten. Während alle daran arbeiten, alles in Ordnung zu bringen, geht der Kontakt zur Erde verloren. Das ist kein technischer Fehler, die Erde sendet einfach nicht mehr. Die Menschen müssen sich auf einen dauerhaften Aufenthalt auf dem Mars einstellen. Dann zeigt sich ein von einem Milliardär finanziertes Siedlerschiff das kein Geheimnis davon macht, dass es die Macht auf dem Mars übernehmen wird. Am Ende des Buches scheint noch ein anderes Schiff anzukommen. Ich werde den Verlauf der Geschichte nicht verraten. In dem Buch ist nicht klar, was mit der Erde passiert ist, es wird in Teil 2 kommen. Die Beschreibungen der Landschaft sind wunderschön. Eigentlich musste ein Bilderbuch hinzugefügt werden. Es sind unweigerlich Elemente des Films "ThevMartian" enthalten. Außerdem sehe ich auch Elemente aus einer viel älteren Mars-Trilogie: Red Mars, Green Mars und Blue Mars.
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For any Mars enthusiast, this series is a must have. As I was reading through the first book in the series, questions began to surface in my mind. The most prominent one was: Are humans really equipped to take on the colonization of a new world, when they obviously have failed so miserably down here on Earth? As Mars Nation Part 1 points out, it takes a lot of cooperation to pull off such an endeavor and that’s not even factoring in the extreme dangers of interplanetary space travel.
The challenges that face the characters in the book are enormous but their resolve is to tackle everyone of them. However, the decision to go on comes with a price and that price is having to deal with the complexities and ugliness of human nature, which threatens to undermine and doom the mission. The plot is exciting and when the conflicts begin to pile up, the author holds you tight to the tale and it soon becomes a page turner that you can’t possibly put down.
As the author strives to communicate all of the “what if” scenarios of a Mars colonization, he leaves us wondering if we’re up to the task but we’re a species who has exploration built into our DNA and it’s my guess that we’ll somehow find a way, even with all of the obstacles that will overwhelm us along the way.
This book will leave you happily scratching your head and you’ll be considering all of the challenges that face these colonists and if you’re like me, you’ll want to rocket on to Mars Nation Part 2. -
Meh, it was okay.
I don't know, I just found it difficult to buy-in to the series. It wasn't the science that I doubted, but rather the attitudes and behaviors of the people that struck me as odd. Instantly, the story becomes an "us versus them" story between the two groups. People in the MfE group behave as if a gang or mob mentality has taken over. The group follows its leader blindly - and damn the consequences. Just doesn't feel like people would behave like that - call me naive.
Still on the mindset of the characters, some entertain the fantasy of one day being able to be outside on the Mars surface without a suit or maybe their children or grandchildren. Seriously ? Not really what I would expect knowledgeably scientists to be pondering.
While the science is good, some of the actions like going on trips using a rover, described as not much more than a couple of quads put together, for thousands of KMs is not much more difficult or risky than going to the local variety store, makes this a bit much to swallow.
An okay book, but I won't be continuing to book 2. -
The premise is interesting enough: Two Mars colony expeditions from very different backgrounds, one from NASA and another privately funded with civilian volunteers and bargain-basement equipment, converge on the Red Planet at roughly the same time and have to learn to cooperate with each other where there are no social, legal, or government structures to guide them. And clearly the author has a solid handle on the science of Mars.
But it seems that the author is more interested in telling us facts about Mars than telling a story. Things happen -- really important things! -- that are pivotal events, but are given bafflingly little room to drive the narrative. In particular one very major event happens on Earth that is never explained or even explored; just a few pages after it happens, there is instead a multi-page discussion of how the inflatable tent works. Similarly, characters never grow or learn, but instead continue to act in one-dimensional ways, doing things for no reason.
Science is great, but even in so-called "hard" sci-fi, the story trumps the science. -
I was all set to write an absolutely scathing review of this book, until I found out it was originally written in German, so I'm going to blame the stilted language and absolutely appallingly wrong vocabulary on the translator. Despite the serious faults (which would usually make me give up on a book) I kept going because the plot was interesting. But the dialog was awful and there were some sentences I had to read over and over and over again because they made absolutely no sense. Finding out the book wasn't written in English helped me understand what may have gone wrong. Now, maybe I'm wrong and the original was as bad as the translation, but I'll give Morris the benefit of the doubt (and encourage him to find a WAY better translator!). Even though I would like to know what happens next (this book is the first of a trilogy) I'm not going to subject myself to the next two books. Which is too bad because it's an excellent premise.
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Is this a book for children?
Wow, what a crock of shit. I have to admit I didn't read the whole book - when they wrapped living animals in plastic wrap to transport them through the Martian atmosphere, it was the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.
The astronauts are portrayed as highly emotional and sexist jackasses who would never have made it through a program with their behavior. The logic errors are so glaring. Plastic wrap as a space suit, armor tape as a possible welding seam, USB plugs are changed from Type A to C "with a little time and a pair of pliers". Nah, even kids know that's not how it works.
Too stupid to keep listening to it.
If you want to read smart science fiction (with logic and humor) you should rather go to Andy Weir, Blake Crouch or Dennis E. Taylor. -
What happens when a NASA expedition to Mars finds itself in competition with a private colonising party intend on making it their forever home? Mars Nation 1 (first in a trilogy) poses such a scenario and then tosses a few spanners into the works to make things doubly interesting.
It took me a while to become engrossed in Brandon Q. Morris' tale, but engrossed I was as the different groups and individuals therein were forced to grapple with matters of conscience and loyalty as they work for survival on an unforgiving world. -
More excellent "hard science fiction" from Brandon Q. Morris. I enjoy his work because the characters are well-written and develop over the course of the story like they should in any good novel, and while the scenario is set in the future with advanced technology, it's all plausible based on what we know today.
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Just couldn’t hold my attention. Little suspense. Right away a major event happens with people dying and it’s off screen. I couldn’t understand why it would be handled like that. I tried for four chapters and it felt like little was happening. I have too many books on my TBR pile to keep reading a book that isn’t grabbing me.
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Seriously, BQM is no Shakespeare, most writers aren't. But having all your characters jump to the same extreme conclusion like it's fact just because you need to create drama off that conclusion?
"Have lost contact with Earth."
All characters: "OMG, the human race has been destroyed!!"
Or... EMP disrupted the DSN, maybe? -
the story alone is actually not that bad,there is a good concept here but the execution is meh…
not one of the characters is likeable especially Lance… never seen character that is screaming “I WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN” like Lance 🚩
also this book makes it hard to believe that the author is a physicist and space specialist….
and the goat chapter??? that was so random and so unfunny 😭 -
Amazing!!
Discovered this author by chance. Will have to download everything else, I loved the characterisation, it was all very human and their actions were believable. You just need to read it for yourself! -
Another author who is primarily a scientist and not a writer.
This book will appeal to you if you are interested in space and technology, and not so much if you are looking for realistic characters. The characters here are interacting like awkward teenagers, but the rest of the story is solid. -
Nothing "Hard Science Fiction" about most of this book.
The few correct science issues were only ok.
The most egregious example is saying you can survive on Mars with only a supplemental oxygen supply. I'm the 0.6% of earths atmospheric pressure you couldn't survive.
