Red Mars: Inscribed

Robinson, Kim Stanley

ISBN 10: 0553371347 / ISBN 13: 9780553371345

Published by Spectra, U.S.A., 1993

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Trade Paperback. Signed For Patrick - With Best Wishes By The Author On The Title Page. Book Is In Very Good Condition. Covers Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Covered In Non-Removable Plastic Sleaving. Lightly Bumped. A Bit Of Spine Crease. Has Been Read. Fore Edges Have A Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Seller Inventory # 047916

Bibliographic Details

Title: Red Mars: Inscribed

Publisher: Spectra, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1ST.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars in order to release Martian moisture into their desolate atmosphere. Simultaneous.

Review:

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