The Red Planet Trilogy

Three Novellas

De: William Graham

Narrado por: Richard Wilson

This collection of three novellas chronicles the dramatic events from the founding of the first Martian colony in the middle of the 21st century to the first election of the Martian Republic in the 22nd century.

From Vermont to Mars tells the story of ecological disasters on Earth that are the catalysts for the first emigrants to head to Mars.

The Red Planet Murders continues the story by telling a compelling tale of murder and the reluctant investigator, Achilles "Ace" Sloan, who must solve the crime amid social unrest on Mars.

The Martian Republic describes the political struggle between warring factions on Mars leading up to the first presidential election.

Together the three novellas are a sweeping cautionary tale of a grand social and economic experiment on Mars.

©2013 William Graham (P)2015 William Graham

Creative and interesting

Although there are elements to these stories I do not agree with................. the series is creative and interesting.

Most listeners who enjoy this genre will be entertained and will feel their time is well spent.

The Narrator did a good job with the material.



This Book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Super trilogy

This is the second to fourth books I’ve read/listened to by this author and I would love to finish this entire series. I listened to The Red Planet President first. Each book seems to have overlapping characters or events to tie them all together. I had no issues listening to them out of order, but it might offer continuity they could be listened to in order.

This is the second to fourth books I’ve listened to by this narrator ( Richard Wilson) and I would listen to another. The character voices were distinguishable. his pacing made me realize I was being read, but emphasis made the book even sound more like an historical account than an active story. I liked it.

There are no explicit sex scenes, excessive violence. There is minimal swearing.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and voluntarily left this unbiased review.
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A future with planet colonization

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it's mainly 3 short stories about a world in which Mars is colonized.
The first one describes earth left behind by mars colonization. It is strangely not far from our reality, still the same crooks that want to make profit over all...
The second one is following some murder investigations. It was presenting a society on Mars. Again the environment in which the story is placed is well structure and one could imagine himself inside the story.
The last story was more politics and was less captivating.

What did you like best about this story?

The writting was "down to earth", which is good for a story written about mars.

Which character – as performed by Richard Wilson – was your favorite?

Some characters sounded similar. I wouldn't say I preferred one.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Nop. But I could see someone doing it, since it was short.

Any additional comments?

"This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."

Politically charged sci-fi.

Fantastic political sci-fi, with a murder mystery threw in for good measure.
Listening to the political aspects of these stories really makes you think about our own political system. Politicians are shady and big business has there hand in everything. This book really gets into the dark side of government. Anyway, I loved it. I absolutely recommend this.

At my request, I received this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

Drama with sci-fi backdrop, let down by narration

Story: 3.5 / 5

Presented here are three interesting short stories/novellas regarding the early period of colonisation of Mars. Starting on Earth we see the reasons - the ecological disasters - that force man off of Earth. We then move to Mars and see the 'street view' of the planet, before moving to the final story covering the politics that flow out of the things shown in the previous two stories. The three stories flow into each other well. The ending of the third story, while being complete in itself, does open the door for the next step and new stories (of which the first part of Story #4 is included here)

While this is definitely science fiction - set in the future, ecological disaster, living on mars, etc - the books are not heavy on the science fiction. They are more dramas - a story of an environmentalist and a developer, a police officers, and a politician. In some cases the location of Mars doesn't really play much of a part. It's an instigator - the "new world" provides opportunities to tell stories - but it isn't really about Mars. This is not in any way a bad thing. And it is not so say there is no sci-fi. There is time spent on spaceship through to Mars and an interesting approach to what a transport to a new planet might actually be like.

The characters and the location are interesting but I feel are both more of a vehicle to tell the "what if" type story - what if the rules around the environment on Earth changed? What if we had a new world and had a chance to do something completely different politically? These are interesting questions and the stories delving into them in an enjoyable manner.

The book is not perfect, but it is enjoyable. I would be interesting in other works by William Graham.

Early on the narration is almost like listening to William Shatner narrate. There is a slight pause every 4th or 5th word, breaking up the flow and actually making it hard to follow. It also makes the characters sound robotic.This does improve over time, as the narrator gets into it and eventually flows fairly well (either that of I got used to it).

However there is near zero attempt at putting any emotion or character into any of the characters. The narration is flat. Either way it makes the stories less engaging and harder to follow.

I wonder if my enjoyment of the story wouldn't have been greater if I was able to listen and enjoy rather than struggle to put together the broken sentences into a complete flowing sentence.

Probably better to pick up the ebook.