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Summary: The Planet Mars
Review: This book strikes me as very fact centered and very realistic creation. The description of the panorama is very breathtaking. In spite of all this, there were some inaccuracies that I observed in the facts and sometimes he forgets that people had to wear their pressure suits (not too many times though). But well, I will pass that. What had not been developed much, until the very end almost where it became better was the individual characters. They certainly lack some human characters and thus they seem distant and hard to identify with. The historical, political aspects were very good, almost as good as the scientific facts. The characters, the human touch of this needs to be worked better to get 5 stars.
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Summary: A Dream Come True for anyone who aspires to space.
Review: Very strong on characterization, complex plots, vivid imagery. You share in the dreams and wonders of the people you read about. Anybody who dreams of space must read this! Three dimensional characters you grow to care about never stop proving how complex they are against a backdrop of desolate landscapes, massive machines, and political intrigue. Stunning!
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Summary: Fascinating beginning and then drags on and on and on and...
Review: The first 200 pages swept me away: How the first 100 get to Mars and the beginning of their new life. Later on it's all about politics, terraforming and endless, repetitive description of Mars geography. Some of the ideas (eg Space Elevator) are cool, some out of place (long livety drugs). I won't be reading GREEN MARS after this!
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Summary: Unbelievably detailed!!
Review: This book is by far the most detailed scifi I've ever read!! It uses almost all branches of science, includes almost all interest groups, plots a very credible very probable future..... It drags a little at times, but then so does "Lord of the Rings". Plus, it's the first scifi book that tries to do justice to Muslims!! I like scifi, but imagine trying to put up with the caricatures in "Dune", and Arthur C. Clarke. Although some of Kim Stanley Robinson's depictions, especially of Sufism, strike me as rather quaint. Read this if you're really serious about seeing what the future might be like.
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Summary: The definitive series on the colonization of Mars!
Review: The hard science coupled with real people caught in real events made this Mars series the best story yet on colonization. The science is of break through quality. It overshadows both Moving Mars by Bear and Mars by Bova, in the scope of reality, story, and characters. Much like real life, characters come and go, events remain unexplained, and there is no neat little wrap-up at the end like other authors offer. Mars lives on beyond the story and Robinson makes it believable.
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Summary: Idealistic scientists settle Mars and make it like Earth.
Review: Red Mars is very strong on the inevitable political tensions that would occur in a colonization. The tension between the enviros and "terraformers" is quite vivid and the characters well drawn. I don't read much sci fi, but I'm encouraged to move to the next book in this trilogy. I'm recommending Red Mars to friends as a fascinating story.
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Summary: the book was so intresting i fesned it in tow monthes
Review: i relly like the book becoues the chareters are will develup. i alsow think that the caharethers were so clowes to the rell thing i thoth i was reading the diery of someone on bord the ship at the time. i relly like the plot. i think the plot was relly good to. exsete it got boring sometimes. uthere then that it was ok. i relly recomend this book for a sinesnfechoun lover. i relly dont that any other tip of reader will ingow the book as much
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Summary: Superb!
Review: Perhaps the best book written to date on the colonization of Mars and the Human History surrounding it. Spectacular science, wonderful scenery, and excellent imagry. Hard Science Fiction at it's best.Certainly the opening book of a trilogy. If you're not in for the long haul (Green Mars and Blue Mars follow) Don't be surprised if you don't like it.
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Summary: Creative, origional thinking, some what abstract.
Review: Nice reading. A little slow in some places and some what lose in holding it all togeather but refreshing.
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Summary: This is the future!!!!
Review: This book fully illustrates what mankind must do if we are to be successful as a race. Kim Stanley Robinson's book presents both sides of an argument on whether to terraform a planet very well, it also shows that human nature will always conflict. It is, I hope, a prophetic story of what is to come. If any body cares I am 13 years old.
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