I got Scott Solomon's Becoming Martian and read it today. It's a kinder, gentler version of A City on Mars - less egregiously reddity. It may have been plotted out before Solomon actually read the Weinersmiths, given the overlap in subject.
This is a good thing. It means Solomon doesn't descend into complaining about "colonialism" until the last Becoming Martian chapter - which is in fact the "Epilogue". That's also where is cited Savannah Mandel's execrable Ground Control. I suspect Solomon would have cast stones at the great satan James Watson, too, had he more time; you know Mandel and the Weinersmiths would. I have to suspect Solomon would have cast more shade upon even Musk, whom I can tell he otherwise admires.
I suppose I am saying that the epilogic chapter is out of place. In addition this author still cannot find space to discuss asteroidal coloniessettlements. Maybe it's to be filed with our Moon as temporary housing?
I am of half a mind to rip those last pages off my copy entirely.
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