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Guy Murphy

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Sisältää nimet: Guy O.P. Murphy, MR Guy Murphy O. P. (Lay Dominican), Mr. Guy Murphy O.P. (Lay Dominican)

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Kanoninen nimi
Murphy, Guy
Virallinen nimi
Murphy, Guy Michael
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
Australia
Asuinpaikat
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Koulutus
University of Melbourne
Ammatit
writer
researcher
heritage consultant
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Guy Murphy′s long-standing interest in Mars was initially fired by reading science fiction, and the Mars Pathfinder landing in 1998. A co-founder of the Mars Society Australia, he has participated in scientific expeditions to Mars-like environments in outback South Australia and spoken at Mars conferences in Australia, Europe and North America. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, he works as a heritage consultant. His interests in Australian history and Mars share the themes of frontier exploration and human settlement.

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Mars : a survival guide Tekijä: Guy Murphy
This book, written in the style of a travel guide, was an impulse purchase the other day as a brand new book. That's rare because I don't tend to buy new, and certainly not in Australia (everything is so expensive!). However, this book isn't available on Amazon because its from the ABC, and looked good, so I bit the bullet. The book's first half is interesting and very readable. After that it tends to die down into an exhaustive treatment of issues you'd need to consider if moving to Mars, and feels like a list of lists. It picks up again towards the end. I know its hard to be interesting in non-fiction reference books, but I feel this book lost its way at the midpoint and could have tried harder to be interesting. However, it was still ok overall and I might be being overly harsh as I don't read much non-fiction.

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