>Terry,
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>No, they aren't out-of-date tomes. The Red, Green, Blue series is extremely realistic and a great read about terraforming Mars. And besides he makes the points to the extreme almost about the Martian day and year lengths. "Moving" is a little more out there scientifically but still very good, it deals with the independence of Mars from mother Earth.

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for them. But can't say I've ever heard of the author. So how long IS a Martian day anyways?
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>I've spent about 10% of my reading time reading (or rereading) "older masters" sci-fi books the last few years. Some of them are quite a chuckle relative to the way things have really turned out. I try to keep in mind though the context of the time when they were written

So have I, but each decade when I dust them off again they get more and more outdated even for OUR time, never mind the far future with inter-gallactic travel et al. Take "3001" for example; Clarke still had people talking on a "vidiplate" or whatever the hell they're called, affixed to the wall, and not using an all-purpose 'puter/camcorder/camera/phone/movie-player/games console, etc., etc.