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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.
<p>‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’<br /><em>GUARDIAN</em></p>
<p>'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’<br /><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em></p>
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<em>Praise for The Mars Trilogy:</em>
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<p>‘One of the finest works of American SF’<br /><em>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</em></p>
<p>‘The ultimate in future history’<br /><em>DAILY MAIL</em></p>
<p>‘Absorbing, impressive, fascinating… Utterly plausible’<br /><em>FINANCIAL TIMES</em></p>
<p>‘A staggering book. The best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written’<br /><em>Arthur C. Clarke</em></p>
<p>‘Red Mars may simply be the best novel ever written about Mars’<br /><em>INTERZONE</em></p>
The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail
Mars has grown up
It is fully terraformed – genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas.
It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.
Earth has grown too much
Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for… perhaps even die for.
The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail
The Future History of Mars - Part Three
2020: Mankind lands on Mars
2027: The first colonists arrive
2190: Beginning of illegal immigration from Earth
The battle for Mars has begun…
As Earth is cracking under the pressure of overpopulation, with too few resources, Mars stands as an Eden to be envied. Rifts have formed between the two most powerful factions on the planet's surface: the Reds who wish to keep the planet in its original, wilderness state, and the Greens who want to further terraform the planet for human habitation.
The survivors of the First Hundred colonists, among them Michel, Nadia, Maya, Sax and Ann, have achieved their goal of political independence. Their stories are the stuff of legend to a Martian youth determined to preserve their hard-won gains. But now a civil war threatens to destroy all that humanity has done to create a blue and perfect Mars.
'One of the undisputed leaders of the field in contemporary science fiction' Guardian
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson...' New York Times
• Winner of the Hugo Award, one of the most prestigious awards in SF.
• Sales of the Mars trilogy have reached over 400,000 copies.
• Kim Stanley Robinson was named a ‘hero of the environment’ by Time magazine in 2008.
• Repackaged to tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings, and the publication of Galileo’s Dream.
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Galileo’s Dream is set to be one of the biggest selling SF novels of 2009.
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Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.