After the Martian Apocalypse: Extraterrestrial Artifacts and the Case for Mars Exploration by Mac Tonnies (2004-07-06) Paperback

Its written by Mac Tonnies, if you've read anything else by him that would be recommendation enough.Sadly the world lost an insightful writer when Mr Tonnies died, read this and then read The Cryptoterrestrials by him, you'll see what I mean.

The book started off very interesting but declined in quality of writing and information after the first chapter - it got quite boring in fact.

You can completely bypass this book, it has several problems, I will highlight the main ones.The writing is pedant and pseudo intellectual, it is full of academic post modern words, that are completely unnecessary to the text, so the overall feeling is just bad.His position on the discourse is between the mainstream science and the anomaly researchers, so he ends up in the middle and is unable to develop neither point of view, so it neither debunks or can advance properly the research on Mars, he ends up making poor attacks on Hoagland, who is the researcher that advances the best propositions for Mars anyways.Most of what he writes has been shown as unlikely, his "prudent" views became obsolete, as the research advances, the artificial is stronger than ever, and his views outdated.There are much better books out there, you can avoid this one for sure.

I loved this book very much.

Slow but informative .

I did not realize how much influence Mac Tonnies had on how I look at the world until I read this book. His impartial and open minded approach to Mars anomaly research only hints at how he applied this philosophy in his approach to all of life. Not your typical fringe-science Believer, Mac revisits time and time again that true skepticism must be applied to more than just those things you are unsure of, but that you must constantly question those things that you are certain of, too.A careful, thoughtful study of the possibility of ancient life on Mars and throughout the universe, Mac occasionally becomes lost in poetic license describing the decaying world of ancient Martians as he envisions their lives, or diverts on tangents that hint at his political and philosophical cornerstones. Mac was the authority on the Cyndonian anomalies, and in my opinion, one of the most credible researchers in this scorned field of study.Like the website, sometimes Mac's descriptions of the anomalies on Mars are difficult to visualize and do not include graphic examples to help tie his words to an image. He tended to assume you understood where the points of the compass were on any particular feature he was describing. This makes After the Martian Apocalypse better suited to those who already have a firm grasp on the features he is describing. Less experienced readers will need to research the sites he discusses in order to firmly grasp the importance of the features he focuses on.

The author covered a lot of points about Cydonia & NASA's refusal to explore that area more fully. What are they afraid of, that they'll find irrefutable evidence of a past civilazation on Mars? Hey, we're NOT the only technological civilazation in the universe! Although I enjoyed this book, I didn't enjoy the author's bashing of Zechariah Sitchin & Richard Hoaglund. Maybe you don't subscribe to all of their theories, Mac, but you don't need to launch a smear campaign either.