Genre: Science Fiction
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Plot:
Mars is filling up fast. After the initial colonization by
the first hundred (and one?), which is way back now, the massive Earth
corporations began pouring investment into the planet with the aim to strip
resources from the red planet and send them back to the ailing Earth. But ever
since the failed revolution back in ’61 that killed most of the first hundred
and thousands more on Mars, there has been unrest…
Green Mars is the second book of the
Mars Trilogy (Red Mars preceded) and
Robinson continues his epic saga of the terraforming and colonization of Mars.
Tension builds throughout the telling as the Earth corporations become
stronger, the new true Martian-born inhabitants agitate for independence, and
the militant Reds sabotage terraforming projects in a quest to keep Mars pure.
Bolstered by genetic treatments, some of the first hundred including Ann, Sax Russel, Maya, Nadia and the poor
psychologist Michel* lead the way towards a final showdown.
*imagine being a psychologist for the same group of people
for over a hundred years straight...
Brian’s Opinion:
I enjoy fiction
which is at once huge in scope and yet also deeply focused on character development.
Green Mars and the Mars Trilogy in
general are extremely carefully written with an enormous attention paid to the
technical aspect of settling and terraforming. A special treat in this book
(I’m not going to mislead you, Green Mars
is rather long, 600+ pages) is the complicated political dance of trying to
become independent from Earth.
Who Would Like Green
Mars:
Green Mars would count for hard sci-fi
if it were not for the emphasis Amazon Paperback
on politics and human relationships, making it
perhaps more intriguing to those who don’t go for hard sci-fi. If you like
extremely detailed and truly epic stories, the Mars Trilogy and Green Mars is an excellent body of
fiction, true modern classics.
on politics and human relationships, making it
perhaps more intriguing to those who don’t go for hard sci-fi. If you like
extremely detailed and truly epic stories, the Mars Trilogy and Green Mars is an excellent body of
fiction, true modern classics.
Read It!
Amazon Paperback
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