Red Mars: Kim Stanley Robinson (The future history of Mars, 1) - Softcover

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007310161 ISBN 13: 9780007310166

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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

From the Back Cover:

The Future History of Mars - Part One

1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.

2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.

2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.

It's the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced.

In 2027, the Ares, the biggest space-worthy craft ever built by man, reaches high orbit around Mars. Inside is a crew who will become the first one hundred people to land on the planet's surface.

Among them are the Russian team, led by the magnetic Maya Toitovna and radical socialist Arkady Bogdanov with their pragmatic engineer Nadia Cherneshevsky; Hiroko Ai - a Japanese biologist; and the Americans, led by Boone and the ambitious Frank Chalmers. Their mission: terraform a frozen wasteland with no atmosphere into a new Eden.

Their mission must succeed. The future of human civilization depends on it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007310161
• ISBN 13: 9780007310166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672