Review of Approaching the Unknown (2016) by Lurch — 10 Jun 2016

Just awful. They send a mentally unfit man into space on a one way ticket to mars. Things break and he fails to fix and report them.

This review of Approaching the Unknown (2016) was written by Lurch on 10 Jun 2016.

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