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Von Neumann's War

By: John Ringo, Travis Taylor
Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
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Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once "Red" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determine how and why it is changing. However, when the probe is destroyed well short of the formerly red planet, it's apparent that Mars is being used as a staging ground. The only viable target for that staging ground is Earth.

Ranging from rocket design to brilliant paranoids to "in your face" fighting in Iraq, Von Neumann's War is a fast-paced look at what would happen if the earth was attacked by a robot race that, quite accidentally, was bent on destroying civilization.

©2004 John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor (P)2020 Recorded Books Military Science Fiction Fiction Solar System Mars War Technology
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Very simple idea, highlighting how reliant we are on technology and how ill prepared we are to do without it in the face of a technologically superior opponent foe.

Very simple and very scary idea, that nakes you want to recall all those Nasa Voyager probes.

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Core story is a very interesting and original alien invasion, leading to many opportunities to try out novel scientific ideas.

Full of great ideas

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