Martian civilization faces the ultimate test as a plan to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet causes passions, rivalries, and friendships to explode in the spellbinding third volume in the Mars Trilogy. Reprint. NYT.
Martian civilization faces the ultimate test as a plan to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet causes passions, rivalries, and friendships to explode in the spellbinding third volume in the Mars Trilogy. Reprint. NYT.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars—a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.
“A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.
“"Exhilarating . . . a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity's future." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "[ Blue Mars ] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion." -- San Francisco Chronicle”
“Exhilarating . . . a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity’s future.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“[Blue Mars] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo’s Dream. In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.” He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
Kim Stanley Robinson's enthralling Mars trilogy ranks with Dune and the Foundation trilogy as a classic of the genre. Now Blue Mars joins the Hugo Award-winning Green Mars and Nebula Award-winning Red Mars to complete one of the greatest science fiction sagas ever written. The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically transformed from a desert world into one where humans can flourish. But as Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overpopulated and polluted planet, and Mars, its last hope, may find itself facing a population explosion or an interplanetary war. Meanwhile, the First Hundred settlers of Mars are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers," Soon the human drama at the center of this breathtaking epic explodes in political upheaval, leading to new explorations into the solar system and to choices that will decide the ultimate fate of Mother Earth.
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