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Summary: Best book of the trilogy
Review: This is the best book of the trilogy. The hard work of putting together the scene is already done in the Red Mars, this book is the one with excellent characters, a lot of action, good ideas. This book definately belongs to the masterpieces of the Science Fiction world. Well done.
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Summary: An excellent sequel
Review: Having read the first book in the series, I decided to go on with the next one and I certainly wasn't disappointed! I probably liked this book more than the first one. The First Hundred are now joined by the Martian natives in their effort towards a Free Mars. The detail in scientific information, character description and lanscapes found in the first book are also present in this one too. The plot of this book is probably better than the first, as it reaches its climax in the new revolution. On the negative side, a couple of times I got a bit bored with the overly detailed descriptions (but maybe it was just me), and a few points in the book seemed a bit exaggerated. To summarize, this book is indeed very successful as a thought experiment (quoting a reader of Red Mars)! If you read the first book and liked it, then I'd also recommend this book; as for myself, well I think I might read Blue Mars as well.
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Summary: Life and Politics on Mars
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson shows how people may live in the future, when technology makes an economics based on scarcity no longer needed. How people live their lives and decide political issues is what makes this book fascinating. Mars is colonized, and there is neat science and technology, but the thoughts of people who live 200 years and decide what to preserve of the original ecology and what to change are what the book is about. This really applies to the entire trilogy, and to his earlier Three Californas trilogy as well.
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Summary: Green Mars could have been a great follow-up to Red Mars.
Review: After enjoying Red Mars, I eagerly picked up Green Mars looking for a great continuation to the struggles of terraforming Mars and creating a new society. Instead, I was faced with the daunting task of reading benign details of journeys and characters that seem to have no bearing on the story. The book could have easily been cut in half and been enjoyable. I had to force myself to finish reading the final 100+ pages due to boredom with the subject matter and how it was written. I no longer have any desire to read Blue Mars based on the writing in Green Mars. Kevin Walloch
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Summary: Green Mars is a chore to read.
Review: Red Mars barely kept me interested enough to read this one, but several times in this book I wondered why I pressed on. While some of the science was interesting, the characters remain static. The description of terraforming Mars is handled well but becomes tiresome after several hundred pages. The characters get older and continue to bicker, but somehow Robinson believes that sex can remain the central motivating force for 100+ year old characters. I'd have trouble believing that for characters past 25. Wisdom does not seem to accompany the age of the characters. Perhaps this goes unnoticed by adolescent readers, but reading about 100 year olds behaving like teenagers is hardly credible. All in all, this book should have been cut to half its length. I bought Blue Mars when I bought this, but have no motivation to read it.
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Summary: Great book--if you like futuristic bickerings about politics
Review: When I read Red Mars, the book before this one in the trilogy, I expected Green Mars to have more of the same material. But this book went out of its way to explain the politics and petty arguments and business transactions and such things. I bought this book hoping it would have more information on the actual terraforming of the red planet, which it had some, and I immensely enjoyed the parts that had it. But when the characters are getting older, and have "memory relapses", bittersweet reunions and political meetings about taking down a metanational tyrannny under a hollowed out Martian sand dune, it makes me wonder why this book wasn't classified as "Politics & Government\Romance" instead of science fiction
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Summary: Best "hard" sci-fi I've read in a long time...
Review: I recommend this series of books to all sci-fi readers.It's full of technical details, and the author tells quite a complex story. The whole scenario of the story has such a "realistic" feel to it. two thumbs up...
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Summary: Engrossing, brilliant, thought stimulating
Review: As a searcher for science fiction books which rise above the hammed plots that gloat the market, I know what a rarity
a book like Green Mars is. This book is part of what I believe is the best science fiction series of all time. In this second book of the series, Robinson continues his account of the Martian struggle for independance and, in
doing so, presents us with new economic ideas, well thought
out extrapolations of modern science, and a captivating discussion of the methods and consequences of terreforming. Don't let the thought stimulating nature of the book dissuade you, though: The book is written so well, the plot is so fascinating, and the characters are so human, I would have been surprised if it didn't win the Hugo
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Summary: A riveting sequel to Red Mars
Review: This second book of the Mars trilogy has just as much flair and excitement as the first book. In this book, you get to meet new characters and watch the old ones grow. A great novel with a lot of scientific perspective
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Summary: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Review: This second volume of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is a very worthy Hugo winner. Although there are elements of RED MARS I did not like (which I'll not go into now), with RED MARS as a background, I found GREEN MARS to be brilliant. If you haven't read Red Mars, don't tackle this volume first. KSR really did his homework in studying the social scientific aspects of his novel (as he did with the rest). The metanational and transnational corporations are a believable outgrowth of current economic trends and their reactions toward Mars and its denizens in GM logically follows their development in the novel. KSR also did a better job of staking out the various issues and ideologies involved in terraforming, giving the policy and political middle-ground between the Reds and the policy of the Transnational Authorities (which is terraforming as quickly as possible moving toward a viable atmosphere on Mars). The Part entitled "What is to be Done" was excellently written and extremely realistic (even if I have trouble believing that with all the political elements represented that some didn't opt out because of ideological extremism). That the group left without any real political action plans made the section even more convincing. The culture of the youth born on Mars seen through the eyes of members of the First Hundred shows a wonderful sense of cultural development with all the elements it entails including genetics, the Martian environment, and how they were raised (interacting with the first two). KSR does not do quite as well at developing individual characters in GM but his characterization does lend itself to understanding the motivations of individuals and empathy The long descriptions of the Martian landscape is at times hard to appreciate given that I have never been to Mars and have never studied photos of Mars' surface and landscape. I like the two places where there were small maps of Mars in the text. The development of large, complex living environments with the limited resources of those outside "the net" or the umbrella of the metanational corporations that control most of Mars is hard to perceive too. But this is easily overlooked at the sake of the larger picture that GM paints.
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