Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Paperback, 800 pages

Published Dec. 6, 1999 by Voyager.

ISBN:: 978-0-586-21391-9

(5 reviews)

The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.From the Paperback edition.

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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.