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The Far Call
The Far Call
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Mankind has taken its first small step outward from Earth, leaving its footprints on the moon. The next step, perhaps in the closing years of the century, will be many times longer and more perilous--the leap to Mars. The far call is a master novelist's evocation of that epic step, of the men and women who unite to make it, of the tangled web ...  more »
ISBN: 278216
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 371
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Publisher: The Dial Press/James Wade
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I was kind of yawning my way through the first half of this book, but the action really picked up at around page 210. Prior to that, far too much of the characters' navel-gazing interior monologues. Only a freelance spy character kept me interested. Once the crisis hit, I couldn't put it down.
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