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In the year 2012, astronaut valkerie jansens life dreams become nightmares as an explosion cripples her spacecraft on the first voyage to mars. Oxygen is a witty, multiawardwinning roller coaster ride, with a plot that moves at the speed of light. Ingermanson, randall 1958randall scott ingermanson, randy ingermanson source for information on ingermanson, randall 1958. May 17, 2001 a while ago i took advantage of a cheap kindle download of john b. An awardwinning futuristic thriller about the first. Another reason was that it looked as though it would be a good science fiction read. Olson and physicist randall scott ingermanson produce a work of science fiction that poses an intriguing question. The realization of this fact has led some readers to criticize the fifth man severely, accusing the authors of the literary equivalent of baitandswitch. Randy ingermanson joins us to explore his foray into scifi with his 2001 novel oxygen cowritten with john b. The authors had hoped to work in some cool controversy on science, faith, the meaning of life, the existence of god, and possibly even the coke versus pepsi debate, but they were having so much fun. A science fiction suspense novel oxygen series book 2 john olson. Ive no idea if the copy other people get will have the same.
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