Mass Market Paperback, 592 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 30 de septiembre de 1993 por Spectra.

ISBN:
978-0-553-56073-2
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Número OCLC:
1267657058

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In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars:

For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.

John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers & Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage & madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life & death. The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar …

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You've got to read this

I could not put this book down. Really one of my favourite books of all time. The book follows multiple protagonists and I found all of them interesting. Both political and social, the book gives an excellent commentary on our society, painted against the backdrop of Mars colonisation. The action is brisk and keeps you thirsty for more. Even a week on from finishing reading this, I'm still thinking about this book, which is a great sign. The one minus point was that there was a lot of focus on geology, which was lost on me because I don't know the terminology. But not even that will make this book lose a point, because it's actually a 6/5.

Let's Colonize Mars

The first half-century of Mars colonization told from the perspective of a half dozen members of the first 100 colonists, each representing a faction or a school of thought. One there because they get off on hard work, one there for a personal political legacy, another there to make money for the capitalists, one for preservation & research, one for terraforming as fast as possible, one to create a new society, one who spearheads a Mars for Mars colonists movement…

Too dry and long for me to really enjoy it.

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  • Science Fiction - High Tech
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General

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