Blue Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

mass market paperback, 761 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 1997 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-57335-0
OCLC Number:: 37042779

(5 reviews)

After declaring independence from Earth, Mars still faces problems: an impending ice age, a search for religious meaning, and immigration. New medical discoveries enable people to live 200 years, causing overpopulation on Earth and the Martians object to being swamped by Earthmen. A replay of New World problems in space. By the author of a trilogy, of which this is the last volume.

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3 stars

I felt like I lived a lifetime while reading this book. Partially because it’s quite a long book, and partially because it seems to forego plot at some points, instead just following the (extended) lives of various characters as they while away their days enjoying flying, climbing, or cruising around their world.

Some interesting ideas, and some interesting politics, but at points felt like those things were only a loosely strung together collection of things the author wanted to include.