Paul reviewed Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows …
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5 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.