A dream to live for, fight for… perhaps even die for. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.Ĭhronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. It is fully terraformed – genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mai The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world – but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe. The survivors of the First Hundred – Hiroko, Nadia, Maya and Simon among them – know that technology alone is not enough. Man’s dream is underway, but so is his greatest test. On Earth, countries are bought and sold by the transnationals. It can be terraformed to suit Man’s needs – frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable.

Mars can be plundered – for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail The second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing… for civilization can be very uncivilized.

Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.įrom the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. Kim Stanley Robinson Collection 3 Books Set

Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson