Synopses & Reviews
Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. Butthat doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two womancrew to Mars-or does it?Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid-and he'sgood at it. After a teeth-rattling launch, Bob realizes that his paranoia hasn'tprepared him for this trip. He can deal with a banged-up ship, but how's hegoing to survive the next five months with HER just a flimsy partition away?Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the crew with only enoughoxygen for one. All evidence points to sabotage-and Valkerie and Bob arethe obvious suspects.Oxygen is a witty, multi-award-winning roller coaster ride, with a plot thatmoves at the speed of light. The authors had hoped to work in some coolcontroversy on science, faith, the meaning of life, the existence of God, andpossibly even the Coke versus Pepsi debate, but they were having so much funwriting the story that they forgot to offend anyone.