Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars by KS Robinson (1 Viewer)

[Lord Ac]

Book abot the future of mankind as we land The First Hundred on Mars and begin our colonisation of the rest of the solar system, and even death itself.

Very long 3 books, tedious in parts, but overall raises soooo many issues and the research is so well done that I cant tell which parts he made up and which are real (ie. super string theory, neuroscience, space exploration, material science).

A great read with many memorable charcters. The book chnages perspective every 'part'. This page http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwb/rgbmars.html shows how the books are divided up and how long each character gets third-person limited view.

Took me 7 months to read. So be prepared if you wanna get into it.

As the daily telegrpah quotes on the front of my book: "a beautiful book - to be lived in. Let most of it be true"

Ac

 

[Skittled]

Saw this in my high school library and considered reading it.. got up to about page 50 of Red Mars, and found the library were hunting me down for a long-overdue book, so I took it back.

You've inspired me to attmept it now, though, 6 or 7 years later, in the next uni break.. Ta!

 

[withoutaface]

I tried finding it at Fisher, but apparently they only have it at in the rare books collection, where you have to be supervised, get clearance to read etc. Might try my local library.

 

[Slidey]

Hmm. Reminds me of the Night's Dawn trilogy. That was a behemoth (3.5K pages).

Thanks for mentioning it.

 

[persephone]

is it a fairly new book?