This was not a compelling or particularly fun read, but it did hold my attention. By far the most interesting thing about it was the references to an unknowable future of Mars colonization. I was surprised to find that it was written in the 1940’s rather than the 1960’s as I had originally thought (I didn’t check until halfway into the book because of a particular passage about racial issues that I didn’t understand). Aside from that part, I was amazed at how ideas of the future haven’t changed that much, and how much has already come about (in the way of technology) that was predicted. On the other hand, I was a bit annoyed by impossibilities, as we know them now, that were either overlooked or unknown to the author in the time it was written.

At any rate, I won’t forget the book, but it wasn’t exactly warm and fuzzy.