Product Description
Thinking about moving to mars?Well, why not? Mars, after all, is the planet that holds the greatest promise for human colonization. But why speculate about the possibilities when you can get the real scientific scoop from someone who’s been happily living and working there for years? Straight from the not-so-distant future, this intrepid pioneer’s tips for physical, financial, and social survival on the Red Planet cover:• How to get to Mars (Cycling spacecraft offer cheap rides, but the smell is not for everyone.)• Choosing a spacesuit (The old-fashioned but reliable pneumatic Neil Armstrong style versus the sleek new—but anatomically unforgiving—elastic “skinsuit.”)• Selecting a habitat (Just like on Earth: location, location, location.)• Finding a job that pays well and doesn’t kill you (This is not a metaphor on Mars.)• How to meet the opposite sex (Master more than forty Mars-centric pickup lines.)With more than twenty original illustrations by Michael Carroll, Robert Murray, and other renowned space artists, How to Live on Mars seamlessly blends humor and real science, and is a practical and exhilarating guide to life on our first extraterrestrial home.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 27 reviews)

Great book but the Kindle edition is atrocious by Mark Schulman (Orlando, Florida)

2 Stars
October 29, 2009
Previous reviewers have pointed out the atrocious quality of the Kindle edition, but it is SOOOOO bad I'm providing another review in the hopes of saving someone else the pain that we poor Kindle owners have endured with this book. Imagine a half-dozen sentences on a page that all look like this: "The re is an other, mo (new line) re basic problem." The randomly italicized text is my personal favorite. By all means, buy the book -- but buy the print book.

Thought-provoking and clever book, but AWFUL publishing by Mark J. Minasi (Virginia Beach, VA USA)

1 Stars
October 12, 2009
Lots of fun but GOD was it a nightmare to read in its Kindle edition. For ten bucks I expect that SOMEONE has proofed the silly thing, but apparently not. Kindle editions are plagued with all-too-common OCR problems and lines that break in the wrong place, but this was beyond the pale. Barely a single page goes by without a word puzzle like this one: "... Forerunners said, by setting up factories to manufacture fluorocarbons, anddumptthemata rate of athou sand tonn es an hour..." If this were some free public domain book painstakingly typed in by some unpaid volunteers, then I'd understand. Mr. Zubrin wrote a nice book; he ought to smack his publisher on the head for doing this injustice to that book. (Or perhaps it's Amazon that converts books to Kindle?)

A fun read by Vance

4 Stars
September 09, 2009
Interesting, credible guidebook for how to lead the ordinary life as a Martian on Mars. Learn about what kind of ground tansport to buy, clothing to wear, shelter to live in, spacesuit to wear. Some of it was overly technical, but that only added credibility. I felt sometimes as if I was really planning my trip to Mars to start that new job. Good resource for writers as well. Next we need Frommers About Mars!

Out of this world clever by Scotto (Flemington, NJ)

5 Stars
August 16, 2009
Very cleverly written with just the right mix of humour and fact, or possible future fact. Everything you need to know to be able to get to Mars and thrive as a successful Martian. Transportation, clothing, jobs, housing, all covered in detail and with pluses and minuses for different options. When time catches up with this book in the next century it may all be true! Sell your earthly homestead and move to Mars! See you there!

too repetitive by Jane E. Taylor (Brandon, SD)

2 Stars
August 01, 2009
The idea of the book is great, and it is humorous for awhile, but I'm about halfway through it, and I feel as if I'm reading the same thing over and over.

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