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Verso Le Stelle (2010)

by Joe Haldeman(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Mondadori

series

Marsbound

review 1: This is a sequel to Haldeman's 2008 Marsbound, and there is a third book Earthbound as well.Like Marsbound, this read as if the target reader was teenaged, but the sexual antics make me think that it is more like a retreaded young adult novel for readers who are now actually older. In my opinion, the whole who's-going-to-sleep-with-who thing was dragged out too long and interfered with the plot. However, the action picks up a lot towards the end.It resembles hard-sf in that there is a lot of physics realism in the near future Earth. But everything about the Others and the mysterious free energy source is just magic. Clearly the emphasis here is on the adventure of the story, rather than the technology, so I call it Space Opera.I am definitely intending to read Earthbound ... moresoon.
review 2: In my opinion, Joe Haldeman is old school . . . and I like old school. Shades of Asimov and Heinlein, I do enjoy this style of writing often, intermixed with the newer "literary styles" of today. Starbound was very interesting because the novel concepts that Haldeman presents are so wacky, I was so intrigued by what he came up with next?!? Wacky . . . yep, out there!I gave the novel 4 stars for the old school wacky story, but was bored a bit with the long descriptive prose on their long long trip to . . . well, don't want to spoil the story! less

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