The Martians (Bantam Spectra Book) - Hardcover

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553801171 ISBN 13: 9780553801170

Publisher: Spectra, 1999

Synopsis

A collection of stories set in the universe of

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Review:

Robinson's Mars trilogy--Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars--was arguably the finest thing the SF field achieved during the 90s. Its account of the 'terraforming' of Mars, of revolts and repression and the creation of something approximating a Utopia, has an impressive sweep, but does not neglect the human dimension. The flawed but fascinating leaders of the original colony and their increasingly strange descendants interact and conspire down the decades; the discovery of longevity drugs at an early stage in the plot ensures that those characters who are not murdered, crushed, exploded or burned in warfare of the most inventively horrid kind just keep on going. The Martians is by way of a pendant-- several of the longer stories fill in background to the trilogy by telling us about relationships that happened mostly offstage. Sometimes Robinson tells us what would have happened in other circumstances--in two stories the colony never starts. And much of the rest of the book consists of the epiphanic evocations of exotic landscape which is yet another of the trilogy's strengths. The Martians is not the place to start with Robinson's Mars, but it is a nice addition. --Roz Kaveney

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Praise for Kim Stanley Robinson:

‘The ultimate in future history’
Daily Mail

‘One of the finest works of American SF’
The Times

‘Staggering... required reading for the colonists of the next century’
Arthur C. Clarke

About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553801171
• ISBN 13: 9780553801170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336