Red Mars

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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinsons massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history Daily Mail
Mars the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankinds 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 civilization can be very uncivilized.

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One of the finest working novelists in any genre
GUARDIAN

'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson
NEW YORK TIMES

Praise for The Mars Trilogy:

One of the finest works of American SF
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The ultimate in future history
DAILY MAIL

Absorbing, impressive, fascinating Utterly plausible
FINANCIAL TIMES

A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written
Arthur C. Clarke

Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars
INTERZONE

Author Bio

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.