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ISBN13: 9780553560732
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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 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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"Red Mars is one of those rare moments when a science fiction and a mainstream novel meet and coincide, without either one losing its gratification: you can read it either way. It is Robinson's most ambitious work by far, in which all his varied literary and descriptive gifts finally come together: collective delirium and personal lyric experience, the epic of sport and physical exhertion, the language and exotic landscape, a vivid characterization of memorable individuals — all this now struck and illuminated by history, by a lightening bolt." Fredric Jameson

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"A splendid book. The scientific background and technological details are utterly convincing, the people come alive, and the story comes to a satisfying climax which gives a sense of time passing and history happening such as is rare in world literature." Poul Anderson

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Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026.
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mishellbaker, June 19, 2009 (view all comments by mishellbaker)
I approached this book with trepidation, as I normally don't read hard science fiction. I am frankly not smart enough to understand it, usually. But I found myself pulled into Red Mars almost immediately. Robinson's insight into human psychology borders on preternatural. As an example: the character of Maya resembles me so eerily that I found her voice very "neutral," and I didn't realize she/I was a little bit loony until I saw her from other characters' points of view.

Some have complained about the amount of detail in the descriptions, but I consider myself a fairly impatient, MTV-raised reader and I found myself fascinated by it. It's MARS. I want to know what it looks like! His descriptions of the landscape are haunting and multisensory; the science is presented in a way that makes it fascinating and enjoyable for even the most ignorant layperson (i.e., me).

The best thing to do is not to treat it like pulp sci-fi, but like literature: read it slowly, savor it, and let it affect you. You won't be sorry.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553560732
Author:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Publisher:
Bantam Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction - High Tech
Subject:
Mars (planet)
Subject:
Mars
Subject:
Mars (Planet) Fiction.
Subject:
Science / General
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-High Tech
Copyright:
1993
Edition Description:
Mass market paperback
Series:
Mars Trilogy
Series Volume:
1196
Publication Date:
19931031
Binding:
MASS MARKET
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
592
Dimensions:
6.90x4.19x1.29 in. .61 lbs.
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"Review" by , "Red Mars is one of those rare moments when a science fiction and a mainstream novel meet and coincide, without either one losing its gratification: you can read it either way. It is Robinson's most ambitious work by far, in which all his varied literary and descriptive gifts finally come together: collective delirium and personal lyric experience, the epic of sport and physical exhertion, the language and exotic landscape, a vivid characterization of memorable individuals — all this now struck and illuminated by history, by a lightening bolt."
"Review" by , "A splendid book. The scientific background and technological details are utterly convincing, the people come alive, and the story comes to a satisfying climax which gives a sense of time passing and history happening such as is rare in world literature."
"Synopsis" by , Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026.
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