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Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.
This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.
Red Mars is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to Blue Mars and Green Mars. But this first, most beautiful book is definitely the best of the three. Readers new to Robinson may want to follow up with some other books that take place in the colonized solar system of the future: either his earlier (less polished but more carefree) The Memory of Whiteness and Icehenge, or 1998's Antarctica. --L. Blunt Jackson
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"The best tale of space colonization--a lyrical, beautiful, accurate legend of the future by one of the best writers of our time."--David Brin
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- PublisherHarperCollinsPublishers
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0246138815
- ISBN 13 9780246138811
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages501
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Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. [viii]+504pp, b/w martian map, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that is slightly bumped at the head of the spine. The author's first work in the 'Mars' trilogy, the story begining in 2026, with the first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the Ares. The book won both the Nebula Award (1993) and the British Science Fiction Association Award (1993). 1000 grams. Seller Inventory # 56114
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1st edition. HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. True first edition the first book of the Mars trilogy and winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. This copy signed by Robinson. Some soiling to the outside edge of the page block and bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Front free endpage has a small rough spot where a sticker was removed. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 13957
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback Condition: Fine. Red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author. Foxing on the edges, bit bumped on top and bottom edges, but hardly to spot. First endpaper inscribed in pencil - First Edition Signed 09/05. But otherwise very nice, clean, tight, crisp copy with straight spine, probably never been read. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. Jacket protected in removable clear sleeve; price unclipped, slightly faded on spine, no foxing - very clean. Red Mars won the British Science Fiction Award in 1992 and Nebula in 1993. Mars was 1st published in the UK by Harper Collins in 1992, bound in red cloth boards, black jacket with grey lettering and a red martian scape banded across the front flap and spine. The number line reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The 1st US edition was published in New York by Spectra in 1993. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000188
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