Blue Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson (The future history of Mars, 3) - Softcover

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007310188 ISBN 13: 9780007310180

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2009

Synopsis

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

Mars has grown up

It is fully terraformed – genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas.

It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.

Earth has grown too much

Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for... perhaps even die for.

About this title

Review:

The final volume of a trilogy that began with Red Mars and continued with Green Mars, Blue Mars completes the story of the "First Hundred", a pioneering group of explorers who have overseen a terraforming project that transformed Mars from a lifeless planet into a world habitable by humans. An anti-ageing breakthrough has kept the First Hundred alive for three centuries and in that time, their motives, desires and passions have evolved in ways that parallel the changes on Mars itself. Conceptually complex and daring, the publication of Blue Mars marks the completion of a modern science fiction masterpiece.

Review:

‘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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007310188
• ISBN 13: 9780007310180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800