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Also the Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Honestly that's my favorite Sci-Fi novel series of all time. Just give Red Mar

Also the Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Honestly that's my favorite Sci-Fi novel series of all time. Just give Red Mars a try and I prosome you won't be able to put it down.

mac01021 8y ago
Gave it to my father after reading it. He thought it was too slow and didn't have enough of a narrative arc, and he opted not to finish reading. I loved the trilogy, though.
- anentropic 8y ago
  my Dad totally got into it, we read pretty much everything KSR wrote... :)
- retromario 8y ago
  It is really slow in places. Robinson loves to flesh out the environment of Mars. Beautiful trilogy, really enjoyed it, but it is an occasional slog.
jimmcslim 8y ago
Given a major plot arc in the trilogy was... (SPOILER!!!) ... the destruction of the space elevator by a terrorist organisation and the consequent destruction on the surface of Mars as the cable, released from its counterweight, wrapped itself around the planet... I’m not sure it’s a great example :-)
- chris_st 8y ago
  On extraordinarily rare occasions, mankind has been known to learn from cautionary tales.
- hutzlibu 8y ago
  To be fair, the "terrorists organisation" was not called like this in the book and was just shown as one party in the war of independency from earth. And the elevator was controlled by earth and brought down earth troops who hunted down the resistance. So you can argue it was a valid military target ... terrorist(in my definition) target civilians. They just acted very rughless. But I liked in the book, how it did not actually took sides, but just showed the implications of what violent struggle/war for independency on mars means for different sides. And mainly from the perspective of Nadia, the engineer who build things. And she sees everything just gets destroyed and smashed. (I got moved a bit by the memory)
ghaff 8y ago
I enjoyed Red Mars. At some point I stopped with the rest of the series. Should pick it up again from the beginning.

mac01021 8y ago

Gave it to my father after reading it. He thought it was too slow and didn't have enough of a narrative arc, and he opted not to finish reading. I loved the trilogy, though.

anentropic 8y ago
my Dad totally got into it, we read pretty much everything KSR wrote... :)
retromario 8y ago
It is really slow in places. Robinson loves to flesh out the environment of Mars. Beautiful trilogy, really enjoyed it, but it is an occasional slog.

jimmcslim 8y ago

Given a major plot arc in the trilogy was... (SPOILER!!!) ... the destruction of the space elevator by a terrorist organisation and the consequent destruction on the surface of Mars as the cable, released from its counterweight, wrapped itself around the planet... I’m not sure it’s a great example :-)

chris_st 8y ago
On extraordinarily rare occasions, mankind has been known to learn from cautionary tales.
hutzlibu 8y ago
To be fair, the "terrorists organisation" was not called like this in the book and was just shown as one party in the war of independency from earth. And the elevator was controlled by earth and brought down earth troops who hunted down the resistance. So you can argue it was a valid military target ... terrorist(in my definition) target civilians. They just acted very rughless. But I liked in the book, how it did not actually took sides, but just showed the implications of what violent struggle/war for independency on mars means for different sides. And mainly from the perspective of Nadia, the engineer who build things. And she sees everything just gets destroyed and smashed. (I got moved a bit by the memory)

ghaff 8y ago

I enjoyed Red Mars. At some point I stopped with the rest of the series. Should pick it up again from the beginning.