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One Way

By: S. J. Morden
Narrated by: William Hope
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A murder mystery set on the frozen red wastes of Mars.

Eight astronauts. One killer. No way home.

We stand at the dawn of a new era.

Frank Kitteridge is serving life for murdering his son's drug dealer. So when he's offered a deal by Xenosystems Operations - the company that runs the prison - he takes it, even though it means swapping one life sentence for another.

There has never been a better time to be alive.

He's been selected to help build the first permanent base on Mars. Unfortunately, his crewmates are just as guilty of their crimes as he is - and he'll have to learn to trust them if they're to succeed.

The future of space travel is in safe hands.

As the convicts set to work on the frozen wastes of Mars, the accidents multiply. Until Frank begins to suspect they might not be accidents at all....

Xenosytems Operations: making dreams a reality.

There's a murderer amongst them, and everyone's a suspect.

©2018 S.J. Morden (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Limited Adventure Crime Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Suspense Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Murder Interstellar Technology Solar System Thriller Mars

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To add to to “The Martian” comparison, I would hazard Duncan Jones’ “Moon” was somewhat of an influence too - it certainly gave me that feel in my gut now and again. Anyway I loved it. Some reviewers felt the secondary characters were rather shallowly drawn but I felt they were about right for the plot and a book of this length, so I’ve no complaints there.
For me the story flew by - particularly as I had no desire to listen to any other material once I’d begun and that’s not true of many.

A sequel would be nice

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I'm not a huge sci fi fan so it was with trepidation I started this whodunnit-on-Mars book. The idea of having a group of prisoners going to Mars to be the first humans to set foot on it so that they can build the bases for the true NASA astronauts is intriguing to say the least but there's no way it could happen in reality.
And so after signing their lives away to an evil corporation responsible for the building of the bases the astronauts wake up on Mars and from day one things go wrong but more worryingly it turns out there's a murderer amongst this group of murderers and drug dealers. who's have thought it! One by one the group numbers start to decrease whilst the paranoia increases.
The narrator's reading style is pretty dry but then again that perfectly suits the baron exterior of the planet.
So in the end we have what I can only describe as a mashup between Andy Weir's The Martian and Agatha Christie's "And then there were none ". I've really enjoyed the book which is a surprise to me, the ending is left wide open for a sequel and I'm so pleased to see that there is one coming in Jan 2019 with the same narrator. Roll on next month.

An interesting concept that could never happen.

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The narrators voice is perfect for this book. The characters are carefully nurtured and specific. I enjoyed the build up to Mars and the slow burn....but not too slow a burn of life on Mars. Lovely listening o a story that removed me from Earth!

Thoroughly out of this world experience

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good book but it was way to obvious for the reader that Brack is a killer. author could have implement at least some more uncertaintity. literally in first 40% of the book you could tell what is going on

brillian scenario

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Seven convicts, offered a choice, life imprisonment or life on Mars. What's not to like?

S J Morden and his fictional XO Corporation blast seven lifers with special skills off to Mars to build a base with which to begin Mars exploration. Morden's bona fide rocket scientist credentials have been used to good effect and he treats us to an enjoyable sci-fi thriller.

This includes in part the problem-solving attributes of The Martian with what is in essence a good old-fashioned murder mystery set on the cold wastes of Mars. With this Mars we aren't talking the relatively gentile world of Agatha Christie though. This is a genuinely frontier land battle for survival.

Morden spends some effort backing up his premise to make it seem credible and if I were a cynic I would suspect there's some real-life experience of modern corporate culture in there.

All in all, not a bad read at all.

It Is Apparently Rocket Science!

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