All Reviews by Allan Blackburn

Mars Girl

by Jeff Garrity

Mars Girl turned out to be much more sophisticated than expected. Quite the commentary on today's political arena. However; I got confused on the last page where as the author you allowed Flanagan to present her asteroid view and thus turning the story into a "truth is impossible to know" tale, rather than a "pursue the truth and it shall set you free" story that it was up until that time. That was disappointing to me, yet maybe the real point [I hope not] is that "Spin Doctors" can turn even the worst scenario around. I don't like that philosophy either, but with the "terrorists all around us" governmental point of view verses the "blowback-ers" I am not so sure of anything anymore. Still, until the end, it had a nice libertarian, freedom and efficacy of the individual flavor, and that I loved. I hope you have more in store for your readers, of which, you can count me one.

Okay, one more thing. The style is unique and the story very humerous.