The books alternate between the perspectives of a handful of characters -each of them playing a unique role in Mars’ history. Which, it turns out, has it’s own name, areology. While I loved the attention to detail, I did have to slog through the odd dry chapter featuring long descriptions of martian geology. The books are incredibly well researched -sometimes annoyingly so. It begins in the near future with “the First Hundred” on they their way to settle the red planet, and ends almost two centuries later. The series -Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars-tells the story of humanity settling on Mars. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is hard science fiction at it’s finest. There’s nothing I love more than a science fiction book with good science. Technology is not just magic with another name. Where authors aspire to be accurate with their depiction of reality. When I read science fiction, I prefer to read hard science fiction.
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