Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
The third volume of Mr. Robinson's Mars trilogy, Blue Mars is set in the era when terraforming has made some areas of Mars inhabitable by humans without excessive life support equipment. As a society, Mars tries to make its way in tension between Earth and the other, newer human colonies of the solar system. As for the remanants of the First Hundred, the initial colonists of Mars, they're dealing with the challenges of longevity and the effects of their minds and memories.
Very good waiting room material, though it started slow.
LibraryThing link
The third volume of Mr. Robinson's Mars trilogy, Blue Mars is set in the era when terraforming has made some areas of Mars inhabitable by humans without excessive life support equipment. As a society, Mars tries to make its way in tension between Earth and the other, newer human colonies of the solar system. As for the remanants of the First Hundred, the initial colonists of Mars, they're dealing with the challenges of longevity and the effects of their minds and memories.
Very good waiting room material, though it started slow.
LibraryThing link
Labels: KimStanleyRobinson, MarsTrilogy, WaitingRoomMaterial
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Like most sequels, I found Green Mars to be less enjoyable than its predecessor. Red Mars was an adventure--the colonization of Mars--filled with plenty of sci-fi background. Green was just as geeky, but "explore strange new worlds" was replaced by meetings, politics and spiritual issues. (spi-fi?) It's also been over a year since I read Red, so it took me a while to recall the characters from the last book.
Good waiting room material. Lasted me a whole flight and most of a two week vacation.
LibraryThing link
Like most sequels, I found Green Mars to be less enjoyable than its predecessor. Red Mars was an adventure--the colonization of Mars--filled with plenty of sci-fi background. Green was just as geeky, but "explore strange new worlds" was replaced by meetings, politics and spiritual issues. (spi-fi?) It's also been over a year since I read Red, so it took me a while to recall the characters from the last book.
Good waiting room material. Lasted me a whole flight and most of a two week vacation.
LibraryThing link
Labels: KimStanleyRobinson, MarsTrilogy, WaitingRoomMaterial
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Red Mars
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