ISBN 0-553-10144-7 (US hbk),,, 0-246-13883-1 (UK hbk),,, 0-00-225453-0 (UK trade pbk)

"With the Nebula Award-winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson started a remarkable trilogy in the grand tradition of the great names of science fiction: Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke. Published to high acclaim it was followed by the hugely successful Green Mars, which went on to win the Hugo Award. Blue Mars marks the end of Robinson's breathtaking history of man's colonisation of Mars.

"Mars has been terraformed and is now politically independent. There are canals and shallow seas that are subject to sudden storms and rapid freezes. It is also warmer than ever with plants and animals specifically engineered for life on the planet. Many of the First Hundred have died and the few remaining are like walking mythological figures to the majority of Martian youth.

"Meanwhile on Earth there are troubled times. With terminal overpopulation, reduced resources and the bitter nationalism that these problems create, many Terrans see Mars as a potential escape. Thus the safety of the Martian culture depends on the health of Terran cultures on Earth. And so on Mars a campaign is begun which will aid Earth through this difficult time in its history.

"Even though the two cultures are politically independent, they are also inevitably intertwined and Mars cannot become dynamically utopian unless Earth does as well..." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1996]

"...he weaves an array of separate narratives into a grand array of future triumphs and disasters." -- (in Locus , Issue 428, Vol.37, No.3, September 1996)

Educational Space Simulations Project
(simulated trip to Mars)

Mars Atlas home page
(essential topography for anyone visiting there)

Mars Directory
(thinking of moving?... here are the connections)