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Original Title:	Red Mars
ISBN:	0553560735 (ISBN13: 9780553560732)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mars Trilogy #1
Characters:	John Boone, Frank Chalmers, Maya Toitovna, Sax Russell, Ann Clayborn
Setting:	Mars
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1993), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1993), Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1993), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Runner-up (1993), British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel (1992) Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Foreign Novel (1999)

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 572 pages

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Title	:	Red Mars (Mars Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Kim Stanley Robinson
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 572 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1993 by Spectra Books (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars: For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers & Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage & madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life & death. The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth. Massive tunnels, kilometers deep, will be drilled into the mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves & friendships will form & 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 & ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in evolution, creating a world in its entirety. It shows a future, with both glory & tarnish, that awes with complexity & inspires with vision.

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5.0 to 5.5 stars. It has been said before but it bears repeating...this is the BEST NOVEL on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written. For all of the technical informaiton conveyed and the "hard science" employed, the book is amazingly readable and the characters are very well drawn. Winner: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1994)Winner: British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel (1993)Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1993)Nominee: Arthur C. Clarke

Some interesting plot events (the space elevator, its destruction, the interplay between Earth and its "colony", some of the practical concerns about living on Mars [but not bathrooms]) cannot paper over the enormity of this book's mediocrity. Consistently boring word choice, ideas that get argued but not connected, looong descriptions of landscape that add nothing to the story, regular use of the run-on sentence and a general use of 10 words when one will do (JK Rowlings's editor...?). Only the

Red Mars is a fantastic beginning to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. The book is part science, part character study and a lot of adventure as mankind colonizes (and begins to change) the red planet. But it's not just Mars which is changed. Those who colonize Mars are profoundly impacted by the new environment as are the next generation (the real Martians who might be part of mankind's future?). Red Mars is not always an easy read, but it has a big payoff for those who stick with it! And the

For hard sf, there's a solid and relentless focus on politics here, which is cool. The book never quite loses track of the people doing the science.There's a lot of drama, many long descriptions of scientific-sounding things, and some great landscape imaginaries of Mars.

As a matter of principle, I try not to review books that I don't finish. After nearly 300 pages of agony, however, I've decided to make an exception to that rule. I can't finish this book, but I can warn others not to read it. It's the least I can do.In terms of plot and story, this book isn't *that* bad, and if that's all that was wrong with it I'd give it 2-3 stars. It's the type of sci-fi story that wins awards not because the story is any good, but because of how meticulously researched it

This is one of those scifi works that almost everybody has at least heard of, if not read. In my everlasting quest to read such "classics" and spurred by having read about Elon Musk and his plans for colonizing Mars, I couldn't help but pick this up.The book starts in the future when cities have already been erected on Mars and people are emmigrating there. There's a murder plot underfoot, the motive of which gets explained afterwards by a jump back in time to how the first 100 engineers and

Kim Stanley Robinson has written one of the best hard sci-fi books I've read in a long time. It is all about the human colonization and habitation on Mars. It is a wonderful mix of science and political science, which is a rare combination in most sci-fi books.Red Mars is a story that takes place over several decades. It starts with the first Hundred scientists who are the first ones to land on Mars. The mix of sciences run the entire gamut. This is not a story with Star Destroyers or Vulcans or