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Red Mars

By Kim Stanley Robinson
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Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is a visionary sci-fi novel that tells the story of the first human colonists to settle on Mars. The narrative explores their struggles and triumphs as they attempt to terraform the planet into a habitable world, all while navigating the political, social, and environmental challenges their endeavour brings. It delves into themes of ambition, survival, and the ethics of altering an entire planet.
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Red Mars

The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail

A gripping future history sci-fi novel

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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 civilisation can be very uncivilised.

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Red Mars receives high praise across the board. Critics laud it as a benchmark for the future of science fiction, with some highlighting it as one of the finest works in American SF. The novel’s detailed and plausible portrayal of Mars colonisation is described as both staggering and captivating, with some considering it the best novel on the subject ever written.

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ISBN: 9780007310166

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 August 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperVoyager

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 42.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 450g

Pages: 672

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About the Author

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.

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