Red Mars
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4.1 • 622 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.
“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke
For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.
Customer Reviews
Mesmerizing
This book pours on the science of Mars as it is and might well be to colonists. It’s very well written, extraordinarily well researched and offers a compelling story. A great read. It may be, however, a little dry for readers who are used to gripping drama and heroic battles. Here we get a lot of protracted scenes of individuals driving across landscapes, making observations. Mars itself is the main character, called Big Man, and he id dead, though perhaps not for much longer.
I use this book to help me fall asleep
Possibly one of the most boring books I have ever read. In fact it’s so bad, I don’t even know where to start. If you’re looking for a book that will put you to sleep within the first few sentences, this is the book for you.
A fantastic reading experience
I recently finished “The Ministry for the Future,” and this novel does not disappoint. No accident that the author thanks Cecilia Holland in the acknowledgments. I thought about her “Floating Worlds” as I read this. On to the next in the trilogy.