Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Reading Red Mars by Kim Staney Robinson

(Current Westland Library Sci Fi Book Club Selection... oops , just ratted myself out. Hey its free, and I can walk to it if I have to!)

This is some seriously no-bullshit Sci Fi. Despite it's beauty it is ultra-realistic with zero fantasy elements. I'm not sure there is any sci fi of this type in Movies/TV. Really good stuff. The good reviews for this seem legion. Not so much with the population at large as it is a bit to much like a real science book or just a good dramatic novel. Might put off some hardcore sci fi fans that are expecting more ray guns in their stories.

Amazon.com Review:

Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.

This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.

Red Mars is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to Blue Mars and Green Mars. But this first, most beautiful book is definitely the best of the three. Readers new to Robinson may want to follow up with some other books that take place in the colonized solar system of the future: either his earlier (less polished but more carefree) The Memory of Whiteness and Icehenge, or 1998's Antarctica. --L. Blunt Jackson

[Simon Bar Sinister]

there's talk about turning KSR's Mars books into movies. I think Ridley Scott's name was mentioned...

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