Red Mars (Nebula Award winner + signed by the author)

Robinson, Kim Stanley

ISBN 10: 0246138815 / ISBN 13: 9780246138811

Published by HarperCollins: London, 1992

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First in the sf trilogy: followed by GREEN MARS (1993) and BLUE MARS (1995). Winner of the 1993 Nebula Award for best novel. First printing with ''1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'' on copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in an almost fine (bright, pictorial unfaded) price-clipped dustjacket.

Seller Inventory # 25283

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Mars (Nebula Award winner + signed by the author)
• Publisher: HarperCollins: London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246138815
• ISBN 13: 9780246138811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

science fiction

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