In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces-for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.īrilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life.and death. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars.
Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.įor eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet.
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