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Red Mars

By Kim Stanley Robinson

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| Paperback | 9780586213896

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In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.

For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For Continue

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.

For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.

John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life...and death.

The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.

Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.

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    IMPRESSIVE

    Even if fairly "obvious" in a few plot twists, this is one of the best sci-fi saga I've read since a long time.

    I was re-reading DUNE and, once I was over with it, I needed something similar: vast, deep, with intense analisys of concepts such as our role in the Universe, the nature and reasons ... (continue)

    Even if fairly "obvious" in a few plot twists, this is one of the best sci-fi saga I've read since a long time.

    I was re-reading DUNE and, once I was over with it, I needed something similar: vast, deep, with intense analisys of concepts such as our role in the Universe, the nature and reasons of our choices and ideologies... it all packed of quite good characters (except a few that aren't worth it) and set on the Mars stage, which the author represents with a fairly good scientific accuracy (with some "mistakes", probably there for the sake of dramatization).

    It is fascinating, it is PURE SF, it is well conceived, it is a credible representation of our future and it makes you think about a lot of things, so it does what SF is meant to do: recommendend to everyone ^_____^

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    Il Gobb said on Mar 11, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Fancy that!

    A pretty credible account of the colonization of Mars in the 21st century, Robinson has clearly done his homework in areology. A bit of a heavy read, but - hey! Fancy building a settlement on Mars! How cool is that?

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    Alberto Cottica said on May 22, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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