Mars Trilogy
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Mars Trilogy (3 book series)
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by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.
 
“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke

For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 1)
by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 6,813 3.9 on Goodreads 84,002 ratings
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.
 
“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke

For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.

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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 2)
by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,850 4.0 on Goodreads 39,045 ratings
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic trilogy depicting the colonization of Mars continues in a thrilling and timeless novel that pits the settlers against their greatest foes: themselves.

“One of the major sagas of the [latest] generation in science fiction.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planet’s hostile, barren beauty. Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, partnerships, and rivalries explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.

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Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy Book 3)
by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,630 4.0 on Goodreads 31,688 ratings
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars—a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.

“A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review

The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war.

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Larry C
3.0 out of 5 stars I am rereading this series which I first read long ago.
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2023
If my memory is correct, there will be many areas of this book that we now know are not feasible.

If we are to teraform mars, we should look at the methods used in the book, Mining The Ort, by Frédéric Pohl in 1993. Humankind cannot live without water. We now know there is no running water on Mars.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Writing Good Reading but Some Will Need Patience to Finish
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016
It's just in the pqat 6 months I've started reading Science Fiction again. If it's all factually based, there iws an incredible amount and detail of science here: Geology, Biology, Ecology, Physics, Genetic Engineering, etc. Certainly a lot has to be fiction, an example, for the time it was written it was a prediction of gentics to come. Incredible detailed descriptions of Mars' planetary surface and features is prevalent.

As an ordinary reader I found myself skimming through a some of the science starting 1/3 through. There was just so much and detailed. Same with the planetary/geological feature descriptions. It became just too much for me to slog through it all.

Character development is very good and much is explored through the eyes of a few key figures. There are major philosophic/ethics/ecology difference in the key figures which serves as a running debate during the entire novel. Again the detail is incredible and well presented.

Except for some instances the book is relatively slow moving because it is so thorough and detailed. I never had the sense that the author was filling content to save plot for the sequels. Nevertheless, I kept skimming through the thick detail to jump to some information relevant to the story, because there is some mystery and drama here too. A complete book in so many ways. I am just impatient anymore.

Recommended reading but I predict a talent for skimming will come in handy for many.
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K. Morey
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended -- simply the best envisioning of the experience of human beings confronting an alien planet
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2016
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is simply the best and most complete envisioning of the human experience of settling Mars and of those consequences, in my opinion. I consider that there are a prequel, *Antarctica*, and a sequel, *The Martians.* I highly recommend all five for a sweeping, even breathtaking, vision of what it means to be a human being confronting an alien planet. This falls, I think, somewhere between soft and hard science fiction. I've read the 5 books multiple times, with the story about climbing Mons Olympus being my favorite for a short dip into the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended reading for those engaged in dreaming of the future
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015
This is an amazing trilogy that I have read and reread over the last two decades. Based on sound science and an extraordinary imagination this trilogy is both frighteningly prophetic (reading it now is like reading the evening news) and profoundly hopeful. This is intelligent science fiction reading and I cannot recommend it enough. You will become involved with the characters until you feel you belong with them and you will dream of Mars and the possibilities of the Universe.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read classic
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2016
I first crossed paths with the Mars Trilogy many years ago, and it's been in my personal library for quite some time.

This is one of the greatest hard science fiction works about colonizing Mars I've ever encountered, and has remained one of my personal favorite stories in sci-fi period.

Fair warning, though... There are several sex scenes in it.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. He is the author of over twenty previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the highly acclaimed FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN. He lives in Davis, California.