Exit Earth

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Summary: More research, please.
Review: Exit earth has good writing and character development, but he really should have done more research for the science in the book. The density of the dust cloud, the lightening bolt to the space station and the moon, etc. are in the realm of fantasy. Besides, the spaceship, as described, wouldn't even have gotten out of the solar system before turning back.

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Summary: More research, please.
Review: Exit earth has good writing and character development, but he really should have done more research for the science in the book. The density of the dust cloud, the lightening bolt to the space station and the moon, etc. are in the realm of fantasy. Besides, the spaceship, as described, wouldn't even have gotten out of the solar system before turning back.

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Summary: The end of our Earth and the hope of a second chance.
Review: Exit Earth is an interesting tale of the distruction of earth and the atempt of the human race to save itself from certain disaster. Filled with great characters and inspiring events, this epic fills out the genre with style but often looses its contininuity. Caidin works too hard to complete this work and forgets that the reader has yet to reach the end. A good story and some realy good imagary, but the ending comes too quick for the amount of pages that it took to build up to it (600+ pages paperback).

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Summary: Clearly a Winner
Review: Martin Caidin puts you in a world you can almost touch. I have read this book three times and enjoy it each time like an old friend. My original copy had a statment on the cover " soon to be a major motion picture". I've never seen any evidence that the movie was made. I had to hunt for two years in local used book stores to find a copy. Do not take my word for it, if you get a chance read this book.

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Summary: Clearly a Winner
Review: Martin Caidin puts you in a world you can almost touch. I have read this book three times and enjoy it each time like an old friend. My original copy had a statment on the cover " soon to be a major motion picture". I've never seen any evidence that the movie was made. I had to hunt for two years in local used book stores to find a copy. Do not take my word for it, if you get a chance read this book.

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Summary: Exciting epic with some flaws
Review: There is no doubt that Caidin has knowledge of space and different fields. Sometimes, his extrapolations are farfetched but most of the times they are right on the money.
The story is well paced but I feel that the end came a little too fast. Was it supposed to be a 800 page book?
Anyway, we understand his point about a new beginning and there is plenty of anecdotes in this book about the best and the worst that the human race can do.
It would have made a good movie. I hope a producer picks it up.


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Summary: What would you do if Earth was doomed?
Review: This was one of Caidin's best works. He takes the reader step by step through his characters' thought processes as all life on Earth is about to be extinguished. A chosen few are trained, and sent off world to await a time when the planet could sustain life again. He tells the story in such a realistic way that you believe that humanity *could* prepare for a calamity, and survive off-planet using today's technology. A very engrossing novel.

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Summary: What would you do if Earth was doomed?
Review: This was one of Caidin's best works. He takes the reader step by step through his characters' thought processes as all life on Earth is about to be extinguished. A chosen few are trained, and sent off world to await a time when the planet could sustain life again. He tells the story in such a realistic way that you believe that humanity *could* prepare for a calamity, and survive off-planet using today's technology. A very engrossing novel.