After the Martian Apocalypse: Extraterrestrial Artifacts and the Case for Mars Exploration Kindle Edition

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.

I loved this book very much.

I thought this book was just O.K. It is the third book I have read dealing with the Cydonia controversy. I've been a long time reader on Mac Tonnies website and I anxiously awaited the release of this book. After reading it i was somewhat disappointed. I am by no means an expert on this subject but I do research it quite often. Mac Tonnies seemed to write this book in a hurry, every time it started to get good the chapter would end. As i read the book i enjoyed it but had the feeling that Mac wanted to write more but lacked the knowledge of his subject manner. He also lacked any real personal theories which is what I was looking for in his book. His slamming of Hoagland was also very dissatisfying. I think he should stick to his website job or write more science fiction. My #1 recommended book on this topic is called "Cydonia, the secret chronicles of Mars", by David Flynn. His website is [...] you should check it out too. All in all this was a good read and if your at all intrested in the Cydonian Enigma than you should buy After the Martian Appocalypse. Its a cheap price and definately worth reading.

Slow but informative .

To NASA's credit robotic space probes have returned thousands of fascinating images of the surface of Mars. In some of these images, certain unusual features, to some, appear to be artificial in origin, potential ancient artifacts of intelligent intervention. The growing body of evidence in support of theories of "artificiality" has been accompanied by a growing body of literature on the subject. Along with peer-reviewed journal articles and other technical papers, an excellent series of books has been published. These include Hoagland's Monuments of Mars, Carlotto's The Martian Enigmas and The Cydonia Controversy, the SPSR's The Case for the Face, and Jinks' The Monkey and the Tetrahedron to name a few. Mac Tonnies' After the Martian Apocalypse contributes significantly to this literature in that not only does he review the history of the research from his own unique perspective as others have, but also explores the possibilities and implications such a profound discovery would raise. Drawing on his expertise in science fiction, he uses thought experiments that provide the reader ideas and potential scenarios. Tonnies also investigates how the internet now serves an important role in the way ideas are born, evolve, die, then maybe reborn in what he calls "memespace". Well written, this book does very well to introduce the subject to the uninitiated while at the same time provide a thought-provoking journey into possibilities and implications for the well versed. I highly recommend the book.

More than twenty years ago, the Viking I and II spacecrafts initiated an era of sensational and mysterious discoveries about the red planet. These new mass of alien information has not been fully understood nor explained satisfactorily by the mainstream scientists. How to perceive and understand alien life or even alien intelligence? Mac Tonnies showed with this book that he is one of the exponents of the so called internet micro culture of hobbyists (his words), authors and independent researchers who are successfully giving a consistent alternate vision of the Martian and many other extraterrestrial mysteries. This book is inspired, dense with a multitude of new accessible ideas and showed that it is set to become the basic introductory handbook of the next step of the human evolution. If we fail to democratically understand what is going to come, to expand our intelligence, and at the same time to preserve our good moral and feelings, we will not deserve the future, we will probably die as a technological civilization. Planet Mars is gently showing us the right way to the stars. If you want to take the red pill, read this book. Don't be afraid, the future belongs to the mind opened courageous guys.

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

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.

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.