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Summary: Good book!
Review: I thought it was a good book. Infact, Im going to get the next series in the book later today since I just finisihed the first one
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Summary: Shikata Ga Nai - Read it !
Review: I'm afraid this is not the best science fiction book ever written, but it is the best science fiction on Mars I've ever read, and I've read many. The book is written considering the real world of real possibilities and if Robinson seems to tumble here and there - according to many readers at least - this is not a problem. It happens because the characters are so real that they are not perfect. They are not Mr. Spock and are perfectly capable of making a couple of mistakes. Anyway, you got to be this kind of naive person to go to Mars. Let people dream with a perfect martian, or Terran, society. We've been doing this since we were - quoting Robinson - running free in the savana. Anyone going to Mars ? I voluntere ! P.S.: I'm planning to read Green and Blue Mars as soon as possible. Shikata Ga Nai.
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Summary: SF with both feet firmly on the ground
Review: Excellent. A realistic book about a mars colony. If the political will existed this could be happening now. No warp drives no aliens. Just a realistic story set , perhaps twenty years from now.
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Summary: creates an entire world in great detail
Review: creates a full world, where when a location is mentioned, you know exactly what is being talked about. you can actually grow up with the characters and predict what they would do in the story. complete in every way
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Summary: Totally believable.
Review: Not your average "Star Wars" nonsense, this ia a gripping story about "real" people struggling with "real" problems using "real" science. I bought the trilogy.
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Summary: NO WORDS....NO WORDS....CAN DESCRIBE THIS BOOK
Review: I don't know where to begin. Theres so much. I can say this. Red Mars is the BEST Sci-fi book ever written. It was written so believeably, and elegantly, and so beautifuly that you can't even begin to descirbe. Kim Stanley Robinson has created a masterpiece. The scale of Red Mars is breath-taking. For those of you who say he described the landscape to much, you've got a lot to learn about sci-fi. For me, it helped me feel the spirit of Mars, helped my to connect with the character's (Many that there where) feelings about the planet and about what they were doing to it. I can understand how Ann loved Mars in its pristine beauty. This is a book that opened my eyes to another planet thats just next door, and to the possibilities for the human race.
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Summary: Good fiction, bad science
Review: This is a fun book, and the Martian landscape and culture really strike the reader. I must say I enjoyed the beginning more than the end -- certainly it moved faster. The characters are interesting and not at all stereotypical, and the plot is well constructed and compelling. That said, the science in the book is awful -- hence the 2-star rating. An SF novel can't be a quality novel if the science isn't up to the fiction. I am not talking about the space travel or terraforming aspects. I'm talking about the economics. It irks me when 'science fiction' has rigorously good science in the physical sense, but terrible social science. Would we endorse well-written science fiction novels which assert that the sun revolves around the earth? Of course not. Then why should we endorse a novel which claims that 'half the world is starving, and always will' -- a completely false claim, given the available evidence? Of course one might reply that it was not 'the novel' which made such a claim, but instead one of the characters -- yet it's clear what the reader is intended to think (hint: when wondering what the author thinks, see which character always gets the last word). Mr. Robinson plainly knows very little about population or natural resource economics, but this does not stop his characters from expounding at length upon the alleged deficiencies of conventional economic theories. To be sure, this is not an uncommon malady -- that is, people 'criticizing' economic theory when the 'critiques' they have dreamed up were anticipated and answered by economists 100 years ago -- but that makes it no less irritating. I will probably read Green Mars nonetheless. There's one born every minute...
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Summary: Shikata Ga Nai
Review: If there is a SF novel/series that should represent this decade, it should be the Red Mars Trilogy. It takes a grand, and majestic stand about Mars. The characters are memorable, and the landscape really is written breathtakingly. Robinson truly has a talent to bring the scenery to life, and his visionary view of the world ranks up there with Clarke's 2001. I wish to one day be standing on Argyre Planitia along with John Boone (yeah I'm a Boonean ^_^).It truly deserves awe. (and for those of you who have short attention spans, why did you even bother picking this book up?)
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Summary: Enjoying the whole series.
Review: I'm just a couple hundred pages short of finishing off Blue Mars. I really enjoyed the entire series and would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys geology and hard sci fi.
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Summary: Why did it get an award??
Review: That this novel got a Nebula Award doesn't say much for the quality of either the books in 1993 or the jury. This book was long and tedious. I kept anticipating that it would get more into the characters, who were very convoluted and confused, or into the technology and difficulties of colonizing Mars. I will not continue with the trilogy; it seems the next two are even longer and more tedious.
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