re: you should learn to read better
I agree you have every right to choose not to read a book based on the authors past comments and writings.
The point I am making is that, on this bbs at least, many commentators focus on a rather trivial passage in the book and ignore the science that discusses the possibilities for extremophiles surviving on Mars and other planets.
My opinion: those interested in exobiology,astrobiology would find this scientific examination very interesting.
Bob Clark