>Terry,
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>>No I haven't been. Like you say, it's still going and I'd forgotten all about it. As you may have seen from my recent posts I've been reading the AC Clarke book "Sands of Mars", written in 1951. So I get all the info I need about Mars from that :-)
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>You should read the Kim Stanley Robinson series "Red Mars", "Green Mars", "Blue Mars" and sometime this last year I read one "Moving Mars" by Greg Bear.

David

Are you saying I should read then cos they're a load of out-of-date speculation,like Clarkes', with life on Mars, or cos they're fine modern SF that stand up to modern scrutiny.

If the former then I'm not too interested (it's too painful reading of dark-green plants that heliotrope - and I'm sure the Martian "day" isn't euiv. to Earth's as Clarke has it - shame on him, and women there merely to be secretaries, and using type-writers, and "spools", and all that old pony).

If the latter then, I'm interested but what is the recommendation?

Cheers

Terry