Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and highly praised ‘Mars’ series.
‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’
GUARDIAN 'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the
standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley
Robinson’
NEW YORK TIMES Praise for The Mars Trilogy: ‘One of the finest
works of American SF’
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘The ultimate in future history’
DAILY MAIL ‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly
plausible’
FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A staggering book. The best novel on the
colonization of Mars that has ever been written’
Arthur C. Clarke ‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever
written about Mars’
INTERZONE
YA‘The second offering in the ``Mars Trilogy,'' an epic SF account of the colonization of Mars. Although it can be read independently, it continues and expands upon the themes introduced in the first volume, and is notable for its examination of issues related to ecology and the humans' relationship with the planet. The story is told from a variety of viewpoints, the first of which is that of a Martian-born boy. A well-written title, rich in contemporary concerns, that belongs in all science fiction collections.
The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth's metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. Debate among the settlers--some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred--is divided between the minimalist areoformists, who have come to love Mars in all its harshness, and the terraformists, who want to replicate Earth. As the surface of Mars warms and is seeded with genetically altered plants, the settlers await Earth's self-destruction, which they hope will give them a chance to claim their independence. They travel endlessly over every inch of Mars--no mean feat, since most of the First Hundred are criminals wanted for their roles in the failed revolt of 2061--with each kilometer and each group of settlers they meet described in laborious detail. When they're not traveling, these colonists contemplate the history of which they have been a part and which they can only partially recall as a result of their longevity treatments. With the collapse of Earth society and internecine battles among the metanationals, the Martian settlers liberate their cities and declare their planet free. This wide-ranging novel is loaded with all manner of scientific and historical detail, but the story bogs down under its very breadth and seems almost like a Martian year--twice as long as it needs to be. The next and final volume in the trilogy will be Blue Mars . (Mar.)
'One of the finest working novelists in any genre'
GUARDIAN
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard
for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley
Robinson'
NEW YORK TIMES
Praise for The Mars Trilogy:
'One of the finest works of American SF'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'The ultimate in future history'
DAILY MAIL
'Absorbing, impressive, fascinating... Utterly plausible'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars
that has ever been written'
Arthur C. Clarke
'Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about
Mars'
INTERZONE
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