How to Live on Mars
Robert Zubrin
Three Rivers Press, $13.95, 206 pages, ISBN: 9780307407184
reviewed by Barry Hunter

Zubrin is President of the Mars Society and offers this seriocomic look at everything you need to know about moving to Mars and having a successful life there without ending up dead.

We learn about the different types of suits, habitats, finding a non-lethal job, finding a mate, and all types of other necessities. There are different ways to get there and Zubrin goes over the options and explains why one is better that the other. He does this for all of the items that have multiple and expensive options.

This is the type of handbook that will be indispensable to early settlers on Mars. Too bad something like this didn’t come out while we were attempting to navigate the path of our lives. There are plenty of facts piled in with lawyers warning and some hard science as well. Read this to see how great a place Mars will be to move to. It’s never too late to learn, or too early, either.