All Comments on 'From Mars to the Stars'

To the stars and beyond! Great story!

5

Excellent story, Mr. Black. Thank you. Randi.

An implied revenge story by a usually excellent writer. I felt the plot was contrived and shallow and the characters in general not very likeable. Despite a few clever contrivances it just seemed flat to me.

Fantastic!

Good story with an original plot.

Weak ending. Should have shown the two "first families" being embarrassed.

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The word is "cachet," not "cache."

Good story, but the ending was flat

That end of story is just hanging

This was an imaginative romance across the universe. Well done!

Hi, Matt, as a long-time Mars-story fan (hey, I even read all of ERB's Barsoom series in college), I enjoyed this, particularly with the little historical and SF Easter eggs scattered throughout it. The machinations by Paul and Emily's families seemed be similar to some practiced in upper echelon colonial societies in centuries past (hopefully past!) and I felt really sorry for Sandrina, even more so than for Paul...at least for a while.

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The story was well written and covered everything quite well, with just rewards being handed out to those who deserved them. The one exception was that I didn't quite buy the aging Emily as presented. She'd proven herself to be quite the social climber earlier so I figured she would have moved on, hooking someone else to maintain her status and lifestyle. However, after thinking about it, perhaps the stigma that Paul suspected for himself might have stuck to her in a different way after the divorce and the final line was hilarious anyway.

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In the end, this was a sweet tale that fit very well with the challenge. Thanks for participating and for sharing your work.

Great story

five stars

Cagivagurl

Cute.

sbrooks103x, thank you for poining ou hat I missed he t on cachet. :)

Good story, five stars. The last sentence is pure gold.

It would have been nice to see some payback against the older brother and the parents but great story.

Great story and loved the “third theory” idea. 5*

Crossovering with another SwaA story, "good thing cats weren't allowed on Mars" :P Amazing BTB story, both as a SciFi work and as LW/BTB work. Pity the evil parents of the main character didn't get any negative fallout (Emily's presumably did by her not having kids). Easy 5 stars.

I enjoyed the story. Interesting theory on the common ancestor. Five stars!