Green Mars
Bibliographic Data:
Paperback, 640 Pages, Bantam Books, August 1995
Author:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
List Price: $7.50 Does not reflect any in-store discount
Status: In Print
BINC: 977800
ISBN: 0553572393
Shelf Location: Popular Fiction
> Science Fiction
Description: The sequel to Red Mars, this is the provocative story of the struggle to transform a desolate Martian environment into an Earth-like world. At the heart of this epic is the human tale about the battle for control between older settlers and the younger Martian born generation and the future of their shared home. 1994 Hugo Award winner.
Reviews: "One of the major sagas of the [latest] generation in science fiction." --Chicago Sun-Times "Yet another masterpiece ...I can't imagine anybody else staking out any portion of this immemorial dreamscape with the same elegant detail and thoroughness, it's Kim Stanley Robinson's now and for a long time to come" --Science Fiction Age
Description: In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.
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