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Red Mars (1994)

Name: Red Mars (1994)
Author: Robinson, Kim Stanley

by Robinson, Kim Stanley

A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.

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In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival Frank Chalmers, a schemer who prefers to work behind the scenes.

On arrival they start to build, and to argue about what Mars should become: a planet to be terraformed, or a world to be left as it is. As more settlers and powerful corporations arrive, the debate turns into conflict. The first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, told through the eyes of several colonists.

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Robinson, Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers." Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

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