Mass Market Paperback, 592 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 1993 by Spectra.
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 …
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.
С одной стороны, твердая НФ, по-настоящему научная. С другой — левацкая агитка, приправленная беспорядочными связями. Лучше бы автор оставил свои политические и сексуальные предпочтения при себе.
Rating this "no stars".
Rating this "no stars".
not what i expected: too little adventure, too much intrigue and politics.
I struggled to read this and tried to like it.
Not because it was a bad book. It’s an excellent book and I see why it is an award winner.
The problem is the people in this book are the worst of us and you could see exactly how what happens in this book is happening now. Not one of the characters has much of a redeeming quality. The one idealist in the bunch gets murdered in the opening chapter even.
I normally breeze through a book but I could barely read a chapter before I had to put it down. Just couldn’t like anyone in the book and the world they live in isn’t one I wanted to be a part of.
I struggled to read this and tried to like it.
Not because it was a bad book. It’s an excellent book and I see why it is an award winner.
The problem is the people in this book are the worst of us and you could see exactly how what happens in this book is happening now. Not one of the characters has much of a redeeming quality. The one idealist in the bunch gets murdered in the opening chapter even.
I normally breeze through a book but I could barely read a chapter before I had to put it down. Just couldn’t like anyone in the book and the world they live in isn’t one I wanted to be a part of.
Scifi esencial sobre Marte, su terraformacion y mas temas interesantisimos. Obligatoria lectura.
Not my cup of tea :(
