Blue Mars
May 2003 · Mars Trilogy Book 3 · Spectra
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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars—a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.
“A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.
“A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.
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Ocean Ray
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30 April 2018
First book was beyond excellent. Second book was also very good however the
incesseant naming of geographical features smacked of either sitting next
to a detailed map of Mars or for some other unknown and distracting
puropse. This pattern was continued in the third book. Socio economics was
interesting, aging ideas and solutions we're interesting, however the
characters just got boring to me. Blue Mars just seemed way too drawn out.
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Josh Scribner
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25 February 2016
The depth and breadth of Robinson's work is mind boggling. His aspirational utopian vision is balanced with plenty of cynical realism, but leaves you ever hopeful for a beautiful future.
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Blair Orr
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28 August 2018
Just finished the trilogy. Really liked it. lots of interesting ideas explored at some length. It's a frontier saga on a grand scale.
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About the author
Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo’s Dream. In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.” He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
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