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Red Mars Paperback - 2001

by Kim Stanley Robinson


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Red Mars is the first book in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. A joint American-Russian mission sends the first colonial voyage to Mars with 100 colonists with the goal of establishing a permanent settlement. Against the backdrop of powerful transnational corporate interests, an Earth crippled by overpopulation and disaster and earnest debate about the role of human activity in planetary terraforming, the novel intertwines sociological, personal, political and scientific themes. Red Mars won the British Science Fiction Award in 1992 and the Nebula in 1993. An ambitious project by Spike TV to create a television adaptation has been on hold since 2016. Other books in the series are Green Mars and Blue Mars.

Summary

Landmark science fiction story about the colonisation of Mars. "Well, here we are on Mars" isn't quite "One small step..." but it's what John Boone said as he took the first human step on the planet. The book paints a rich and throughly plausible picture of how the First Hundred lead the way to the complete colonisation and terraforming of the planet, a story that continues in the rest of the trilogy (Green Mars and Blue Mars). If you want to know what's like to like on Mars, you can do no better than read this absolutely fantastic novel. First published in Britain in 1992. First Editions change hands for hundreds of pounds.

First Edition Identification

Mars was first published in the UK by HarperCollins in 1992. Bound in red cloth boards, it features a 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 first US edition was published in New York by Spectra in 1993 and is in a glossy pictorial jacket with a ship orbiting the surface of Mars. 

Details

  • Title Red Mars
  • Author Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 672
  • Publisher Trafalgar Square, London
  • Date June 2001
  • ISBN 9780007115907
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