Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson (The future history of Mars, 1)

Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson (The future history of Mars, 1)

by KimStanleyRobinson (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Edition: 1
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 01 Jul 2009

ISBN 10: 0007310161
ISBN 13: 9780007310166

Media Reviews

`Red Mars is the ultimate in future history'
Daily Mail

'One of the undisputed leaders of the field in contemporary science fiction' 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

`One of the finest works of American sf'
Times Literary Supplement

`Absorbing, impressive, fascinating... Utterly plausible'
Financial Times

'A mighty trilogy... forecasting every detail and facet, triumph and tragedy, crucial breakthroughs and trivialities of humanity's colonization of another world'
Daily Mail

`A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.'
Arthur C. Clarke

Author Bio

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.