Read it for the first time in 1993. Going into this book 20 years later, the feeling I had was one of trepidation. Would the book have stood the test of time?And the answer is: Unfortunately no.One of the things that I've noticed almost from the onset was a huge dissonance (I don't remember spottin...
I have just returned from Mars.Well, I haven't of course but it feels a little like that. I feel like I have been one of the pioneer colonists struggling to tame Mars for posterity. That is how immersive this book can be, though it is not actually quite so engrossing throughout every page but even t...
Perhaps what stands out most about Red Mars is the sheer attention to detail. Robinson obviously went to great length to make his account of the colonization of Mars believable from a technical standpoint. Is it entirely accurate science? I don't know, and frankly some of it was above my head. This ...
Read this both for book club, and as part of my read-all-the-Hugo&Nebula-Award-Winners undertaking. (Which means I have to read both sequels, as well.)It's a good book, but it's not my favorite.It's an ambitious, even epic, saga of the colonization of Mars. It's slow-moving, and full of well-researc...
The middle section dragged so much, so I actually put this book on hold for a long time. I read the first few hundred pages really quickly, but after I got into Falling Into History, I couldn't keep going. The end was really quick, so I finished it once I got through that section. Also, I'm not s...
The middle section dragged so much, so I actually put this book on hold for a long time. I read the first few hundred pages really quickly, but after I got into Falling Into History, I couldn't keep going. The end was really quick, so I finished it once I got through that section. Also, I'm not s...
Red Mars looks at the first waves of emigration to Mars, through the eyes of certain members of the First Hundred, the original settlers. The world Kim Stanley Robinson paints is complex, filtered through the perceptions of different people, the politics intense and contentious, even the debate over...
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
Not bad. Can definitely see that the writer is a leftist. Contains much "hard scifi" content--thick descriptions of topography, geography, meteorology, minerals, genetics, engineering--that stuff is difficult for me to read closely. The text is not, however, as some have complained, simply a long...
You need to know what you're getting into before you embark upon reading this novel. If you're in the mood for an in-depth and realistic chronicle of how humanity might go about the colonisation of Mars in the not to distant future, if you love hard science fiction, if seeing how huge technical prob...
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