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No Man Friday

No Man Friday

Author: Rex Gordon

A lone astronaut stranded on Mars isnt original with The Martian (see above), nearly 60 years earlier the plot was played out in this extraordinary novel.A secret British rocket is heading for Mars when there is an accident, and every member of the crew except one is killed. When the rocket crash lands on Mars, the engineer Gordon Holder has to find a way to survive for fifteen years, until an American mission arrives, thinking they are the first to reach Mars. Of course the Mars of this novel is very different from the Mars of The Martian; for a start there are gigantic nocturnal creatures with whom Holder must learn how to co-operate.As the title suggests, this is a version of Robinson Crusoe (though the later film, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, owes nothing to this book), and the struggle to survive against the odds is as gripping here as it is in The Martian.

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