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Green mars by kim stanley robinson
Green mars by kim stanley robinson












green mars by kim stanley robinson

Things have settled down somewhat, but the two opposing forces - the transnational corporations bent on exploiting and controlling Mars, and those who want to go an independent Martian way - are still in conflict, with a seething unrest spread across much of the planet.Įarth-powers remains in control, but there's a good deal of opposition on Mars proper. The first volume of the trilogy, Red Mars, culminated with the turning point of 2061, as those that had settled on the planet try to gain more autonomy and no longer want to answer to Earth (or create the Earth- (and corporate-) vision of Mars).

green mars by kim stanley robinson

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green mars by kim stanley robinson

  • "For all its unwieldy plotting, it still has a massive grip that makes it as compelling as it is worthy." - Tom Hutchinson, The Times.
  • (.) Robinosn takes on the intricate long haul of the task he has set himself without getting lost in histories or technologies" - Francis Spufford, Sunday Times
  • "A sense is also building of the remoteness of what Robinson describes, however acclimatised to his Mars the reader has become.
  • Grand in scope, meticulous in detail" - Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review
  • "If John McPhee wrote science fiction, the result might read like Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
  • Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1994ī : solid continuation, but very much a middle section.
  • See also the other volumes in The Mars Trilogy: Red Mars and Blue Mars.
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    Green mars by kim stanley robinson