Green Mars
Red Mars garnered a Hugo nomination and rave reviews across the country with its sweeping story of Martian colonization. Packed with scientific detail, compelling characters, and a thrilling story of humankind living at its newest frontier, this second volume in the epic promises to become a...
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Red Mars garnered a Hugo nomination and rave reviews across the country with its sweeping story of Martian colonization. Packed with scientific detail, compelling characters, and a thrilling story of humankind living at its newest frontier, this second volume in the epic promises to become a classic.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780553898286 (0553898280)
Publish date: May 27th 2003
Publisher: Spectra
Pages no: 620
Edition language: English
Series: Mars Trilogy .5 (#2)
Green Mars is a very good novel, following up on the strengths of Red Mars but occasionally succumbing to an excess of descriptive prose (which, coming from me, means something -- I usually love detailed descriptions). Fortunately, Kim Stanley Robinson is capable of utterly mind-blowing descriptions...
On average, I enjoyed Green Mars more than I had enjoyed Red Mars. The latter half of Red Mars had a chaotic mish-mash of major events happening at a large variety of places to a large variety of people. There were so many things going on that I didn’t really feel invested in any of it. This book, o...
Another great read! Hard SciFi at it's best.
“Technically he weighed about forty kilos, but as he walked along it felt more like five. Very strange, even unpleasant. Like walking on buttered glass.”This is my favorite feature of hard science fiction, the little minutiae that make the imaginary scenes not merely believable but also visceral; mo...
I did keep going, but had to skip more and more. I don't demand a story-line in every book - but this one just did description - and with the sheer number of pages you would have thought he would have had space for a bit of story. If he was trying to do a Stephen Donaldson - he failed. But I still l...