- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Earthlight; New edition edition (8 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671037536
- ISBN-13: 978-0671037536
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 435,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It all began 30 years ago on Mars, with a greenperson, but by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every concievable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chataqua to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Desolation Road a science fiction set on Mars centers on the town of the title from its founding by a lone scientist trying to unravel the mysteries of time travel to its eventual destruction decades later.
The story is told through the lives of the towns inhabitants passing from one generation to the next.
Highlights include Adam Blacks Educational Extravagansa (with a genuine angel)The arrival of the next prophet, a murder trial, a revoultion, the greatest snooker player who has ever lived and of course the 1st manned time trip in history.
The book is full of wonderful quirks: people come of age at Ten (the martian year is twice ours so in Earth terms they are Twenty), Events always happen at curious times of the day (Thirteen minutes of Thirteen) Worship of the machine has become fused with our religions creating something that is both familiar and alien, The very names of the characters instantly conjure a mental image of them.
The fact the story passes from one generation to the next really gives a sense of continuity to the whole, you really feel as though you KNOW these families and you really can empathise with (or despise)the characters.
I cannot reccomned this book highly enough!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Zany combinations of a genetically rewired humanity,when the strange drift of fate and desire brings togheter fascinating and cryptic personae in a hyperrealistic martian desert.A masterpiece of the imagination.I'm savouring it slowly,to appreciate the melancholic,Sheckleyan twang of McDonald's intriguing writing. If you want to read a VERY good modern S.F. book on Mars,read this book.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Well what can i say Mcdonald Crafts a fine Story. He weaves many threads and manages to Somehow to pull them all together again. You can see some plotlines coming but hell its a great book and a fantastic read.
The Blurb lets it down. If you like Sci-Fi and weird mythos than this is the book for you!
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A so-so start gradually stagnates into sheer unending tedium.
I hate to dissent from the other 5-star reviews for this book, but this book is defintely not of the same calibre as McDonald's later work. Read more
Published 17 months ago by HeecheeRendezvous
magical !
This book is marvellous, wierd, odd & at times poetic. Like the best of Ray Bradbury's small town Americana stories worked up into a novel, dusted with cyberpunk and moved... Read more
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