Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

I did enjoy large swathes of this book, at times it did feel like everything was a bit too long though, It also was kind of annoying to me that we mostly follow the people I like the least in the book frank, john, and maya. It was fun and I probably will continue on to the next one, just need a little breather first. Hopefully that will have some better characters that I can spend time with, more like Nadia and Michel which were way better, but sadly a really small part of the story.

It felt like mostly this story was about making communism sound palatable to americans all in all, which is a bit much for me. It does also seem pretty huge on stereotyping every nation that isn't american down to a couple of things which is kind of standard fare, but kind of annoying.

Rating this "no stars".

That was superb. A chronicle of the first 36 years of the colonisation of Mars and it's absolutely packed.

While it is very much a hard-sf novel, and the science is very much built into the narrative, what makes Red Mars really gripping is everything else. The characters, the politics, the compromises, the consequences.

The scope of the novel is huge and it deserves every accolade it's recieved.