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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history' Daily MailMars the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind's dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert Red Mars is the story of a new genesis.It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing for civilization can be very uncivilized.

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‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
GUARDIAN

'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’
NEW YORK TIMES

Praise for The Mars Trilogy:

‘One of the finest works of American SF’
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘The ultimate in future history’
DAILY MAIL

‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly plausible’
FINANCIAL TIMES

‘A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written’
Arthur C. Clarke

‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars’
INTERZONE

Red Mars

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperVoyager
      Published 6 August 2009
      ISBN-13 9780007310166
      978-0007310166
      ISBN-10 0007310161
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history' Daily MailMars the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind's dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert Red Mars is the story of a new genesis.It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing for civilization can be very uncivilized.

      Trade Review

      ‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
      GUARDIAN

      'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’
      NEW YORK TIMES

      Praise for The Mars Trilogy:

      ‘One of the finest works of American SF’
      TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

      ‘The ultimate in future history’
      DAILY MAIL

      ‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly plausible’
      FINANCIAL TIMES

      ‘A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written’
      Arthur C. Clarke

      ‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars’
      INTERZONE

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