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Guy Murphy

Auteur de Mars: A Survival Guide

3 oeuvres 12 utilisateurs 1 Critiques

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Comprend les noms: Guy O.P. Murphy, MR Guy Murphy O. P. (Lay Dominican), Mr. Guy Murphy O.P. (Lay Dominican)

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Nom canonique
Murphy, Guy
Nom légal
Murphy, Guy Michael
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Australia
Lieux de résidence
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Études
University of Melbourne
Professions
writer
researcher
heritage consultant
Courte biographie
Guy Murphy′s long-standing interest in Mars was initially fired by reading science fiction, and the Mars Pathfinder landing in 1998. A co-founder of the Mars Society Australia, he has participated in scientific expeditions to Mars-like environments in outback South Australia and spoken at Mars conferences in Australia, Europe and North America. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, he works as a heritage consultant. His interests in Australian history and Mars share the themes of frontier exploration and human settlement.

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Mars : a survival guide par Guy Murphy
This book, written in the style of a travel guide, was an impulse purchase the other day as a brand new book. That's rare because I don't tend to buy new, and certainly not in Australia (everything is so expensive!). However, this book isn't available on Amazon because its from the ABC, and looked good, so I bit the bullet. The book's first half is interesting and very readable. After that it tends to die down into an exhaustive treatment of issues you'd need to consider if moving to Mars, and feels like a list of lists. It picks up again towards the end. I know its hard to be interesting in non-fiction reference books, but I feel this book lost its way at the midpoint and could have tried harder to be interesting. However, it was still ok overall and I might be being overly harsh as I don't read much non-fiction.

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mikal | Oct 18, 2010 |
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Œuvres
3
Membres
12
Popularité
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Évaluation
3.0
Critiques
1
ISBN
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