Red Mars QUARTET All SIGNED

Robinson, Kim Stanley

ISBN 10: 0246138815 / ISBN 13: 9780246138811

Published by Harper Collins Voyager, United Kingdom, 1992

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This is the full quartet, Red Green Blue and Martians. All fine in fine dustjackets in mylar protection. They are all 1st printings 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1999. Red & Blue Mars & The Martians are all signed and inscribed to me and dated Glasgow 2005. Green Mars came from Andy at Cold Tonnage and is simply signed by the author on the title page. Green Mars has a price clipped dustjacket and a mild score along the bottom of part of the text block (see photos). This copy also has the laid in advert for the book plus a postcard of the Challenger postcard addressed to Andy with 16 full lines of text from Stan and signed by him. All other jackets are not price clipped. Text blocks are all clean and tight essentially unread with very mild tanning to the Blue Mars text block, with sharp square boards and clean shiny jackets. A beautiful set of "A Mighty Trilogy.The Ultimate in Future History.One Writer Whose Work Will Set the Standard for Science Fiction in the Future" This listing is for 4 books and postage may need recalculated for certain destinations.

Seller Inventory # 000842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Mars QUARTET All SIGNED
• Publisher: Harper Collins Voyager, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246138815
• ISBN 13: 9780246138811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• 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