Mars Mission I: Surviving the Kessler Effect Paperback – April 8, 2020

An amazing sequence of events that you can actually believe is happening. A fast moving and always exciting novel. I myself didn’t know what the Kessler Effect was but now I hope it never happens. This story is put together really well and all the situations fit right together. I can’t wait to find out what happens to the Mars crew.

Good story. Layout of the book makes you feel like your reading report. So does the title. But don't judge a book by the cover or page layout. It's a good read. Well done story with good characters. Read it and enjoy.

Great story, I hope the auther doesn't follow George R Martin example taking a decade to finish book two.PS the added space between lines works for this guy with dyslexia

I have read Every Apocalyptic Book Written. I Love Tom Clancy & Military books. I Love Survival Books. THIS Book is ALL 3 genres combined. I cannot put it down. I am Scared. It MIGHT be the Scariest book I have Ever read. GOOGLE Kessler Effect. I taught Physics. I understand How Objects orbit the Earth. Imagine if we LOST all Satellites???? Communication Alone would be back to Prior 195O's. This book is SCARY.

The good: The premise is engaging and thought-provoking. The science seems to be believable enough. It's a fairly decent read.The bad: The first thing that jumped out at me was how many spelling and punctuation errors thre are. I feel like Word or Docs would have done a better job editing. It's like the writer typed it up in notepad and took it straight to print without ever thinking to run it by an editor. Words are misspelled or improperly pluralized (or singularized) and punctuation is missing where it should be present, and present where it shouldn't be. In the case of quotation marks, this can make for some extremely confusing reading at times.Also, so far there's at least one sex scene that's EXTREMELY graphic and seems to come out of nowhere. There was no build-up, no latent sexual tension for a few chapters before the relationship evolved, one minute it's just two people who are no more or less as close to each other as they are to the rest of the crew and the next minute they're going at it in EXTREMELY graphic detail. I'm not even saying I'm against a little sexual content of it ads something to the story, but this came so far out of left field and seemed to add nothing to the story. Just seemed gratuitous. Like "Hey, we should add a page and a half of romance novella level smut for no reason". I mean, the Martian had a crew romance between Beck and Johanssen. It's even stated that they're sharing a cabin. But it added to the story, helped to finish the character arc for both of them, and the graphic details were left up to the readers imagination.Overall, if feels like the book was written by a very enthusiastic, VERY nerdy 15 year old kid. All that being said, I'm still interested enough to finish it. I'll add my final thoughts when I'm done.

This book was a page-turner for me, a hard-core sci-fi fan, despite its innumerable typos, awful grammatical errors and constant repetitions. A good editor was sorely needed. In addition, the characters had little in the way of personality -- and just forget about character development. Yet Jones has the essential talent of making you want to know what comes next. I look forward to Mars Mission II.

This is a great SciFi story. Seems completely plausible which adds to the enjoyability. Good character development and continued plot movement. The Martian meets [a scientifically accurate] Gravity.

Large print, double spaced, published by a tiny Florida publishing company -- should have been the first clues. In any case, I found the writing style sophomoric at best, weak character development and problems with the plot that annoyed me throughout (e.g. one mystery rocket fired from the ocean or two? -- first eight chapters say one, rest of the book its apparently two; how to access the supply rockets on Mars? -- tip them over, the obvious and only solution mission control on Earth comes up with, but the only solution the stranded crew does not even consider even though they have already accessed the one rocket that fell over on its own; almost totally ignoring the question of who fired the rocket(s) that caused all the problems in the first place until the last couple of pages, and then basing the identification on nothing more than a guess). The book ends with the crew still stranded on Mars, so no doubt book two is in the works, which I will be skipping.