Red Mars

#1 Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

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Harper Collins
01 October 2009

Series: Mars

The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail

Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s 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.

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780007310166
ISBN 10: 0007310161
Series: Mars
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 01 October 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Red Mars (#1 Mars)

'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