Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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.

• ISBN13: 9780007310166
• Publish Date: 6 August 2009 (first published 24 September 1992)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperVoyager
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 672
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

Engaging enough to read the next book. It got a bit boring in the middle but it may have just been the pace I was reading at. The ending was fairly gripping though.