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Given a major plot arc in the trilogy was... (SPOILER!!!) ... the destruction of the space elevator by a terrorist organisation and the consequent destruction

• 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)