RETROGRADE’s

And what a story it is! Brilliant minds on Mars fighting for their lives and the lives of everyone they love on Earth? Sold. RETROGRADE shows us how a group of amazing scientists and field pillars are faced with life or death decisions that are about as moral as decisions get – save yourself or save the world kind of decisions. And the decisions made in this story are beautiful and ugly. Humanity at it’s finest and, naturally, at its worst as well.

And trust me when I say, you’ll be rooting for these people. Cawdron’s great at emotionally connecting the reader to his characters. By the end of each of his novels that I’ve read, I’ve felt like I’d made new friends. Like I’d met some people with whom I’d love to grab a beer or, in this case, go spelunking on Mars. This novel is no different so when a cast of fellow geeks and people I genuinely admire are dropped head first into a situation in which most people couldn’t survive, I found it very difficult to put the book down.

In closing, this novel is a true page-turner that gives you a first-hand view of the beauty (and ugliness) of humanity when faced with a hopeless disaster. Furthermore, it serves as a perfect example of how the most important war humanity will ever fight can potentially kick off.

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it feels educational because it doesn’t, at least not in a boring kind of way. It’s a horror fiction story. Yet, being a story that plays out in a way that’s very much possible in real life, it’s a special kind of horror fiction. The kind that you can’t just put down and soothe your fear with denial and indifference. You have to accept the possibility of this story whether you like it or not.

That’s the best I can do without spoiling anything. If you like catchy intelligent narratives from realistic characters inside a “sciency” horror story, you’ll love this novel.

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The doctor’s office called around 7am to let us know they were able to squeeze him in this morning before their first regular appointment. I downed a large cup of black coffee and strapped him in the car seat and off the three of us went. Olivia sat in the backseat with him. Of course when we got in to see the doctor, Owen was sound asleep making us look like total crackpot hypochondriacs. I joked to the doctor how your car always works perfectly until you bring it into the mechanic to get it checked out. He didn’t laugh.

The doctor said he’s sure my son is colic. Or has colic. I can’t remember. So we packed him up and brought him home and he slept for another hour before finally turning into a little zombie trying to latch on to anything that remotely looked like a nipple. How can anyone, baby or not, get so excited about milk. I love him. He’s driving me nuts. Poor thing.

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A friend of mine describes King as the Danielle Steel of horror. It’s meant to be a slight. His way of saying King doesn’t write “real” novels and simply churns out mindless drivel for a particular type of classless reader. He didn’t say all that, but that’s how I interpreted it. Well I say this: I’ve never read a Danielle Steel book so I can’t comment on the comparison, but, if my friend is right, and if I liked reading crap about rich families in crises, then I’d probably love Danielle Steel.

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Shit.

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Often I hear parents describing the experience of having children as something you just have to experience yourself to really understand. I use to try to relate by imagining the unconditional love I have for my cats (and my dog who’s no longer with us) but they’d almost always say that it’s not the same or to take that love and multiply it by a thousand. Now that I’ve experienced it myself I can see where they are coming from but I don’t believe that a person can’t experience that kind of happiness unless they have a child. Unconditional love is unconditional love and I believe if you have ever truly experienced that then you know what having a child feels like.

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This works to fool Google but if you’re interested in delivering a truly responsive design experience for your visitors, it’s nowhere near this simple. Fear not, I can help. Complete this form to get started:

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Normally, the project will have instructions for how to build and install it. Google that first.

Otherwise, follow these simple instructions:

• Download a tarball (tar.gz or tar.bz2 file), which is a release of a specific version of the source code
• Extract the tarball with a command like tar zxvf myapp.tar.gz for a gzipped tarball or tar jxvf myapp.tar.bz2 for a bzipped tarball
• cd into the directory created above
• Run ./configure && make && sudo make install

Wasn’t too difficult, was it?

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$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

$ killall Finder

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