The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail
Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.
From 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.
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.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007310166
Number of pages: 672
Weight: 450 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm
‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN 'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMES Praise for The Mars Trilogy: ‘One of the finest works of American SF’TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘The ultimate in future history’DAILY MAIL ‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly plausible’FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written’Arthur C. Clarke ‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars’INTERZONE
A good story line, intense at times and very political. I don't read many books that have so much politics as I'm not too keen on politics. But overall I enjoyed it and am interested in reading the rest in... More
This novel imagines humanity's first settlement on Mars and follows its growth from scientific outpost to colony. It does so with an impressive attention to detail. Whether it's the spacecraft that carries... More
Red Mars is an impressive book. It's pure science fiction. By that I mean it's science heavy, as accurate as it could be at the time. I enjoyed this first book. The characters are very well created and the... More
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