Blue Mars - (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Kim Stanley Robinson virtually redefined science fiction with the Nebula Award-wining "Red Mars" and the Hugo Award-winning "Green Mars". This spellbinding third book in his "Mars" trilogy, garnered stellar reviews upon its hardcover publication and further established Robinson as a singular voice in the genre. In this tale, the Martian civilization faces the ultimate test, as a plan to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet causes passions, rivalries, and friendships to explode. National ads, including "USA Today".<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel -</b> <b>One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson's epic trilogy concludes with <i>Blue Mars</i>--a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.</b><br> <b><br>"A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson's] own consistently high levels of achievement."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br></b><br> The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers." Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion--or interplanetary war.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Exhilarating . . . a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity's future."<b>--<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b> <p/> "[<i>Blue Mars</i>] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion."<b>--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Kim Stanley Robinson</b> is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed <i>Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, </i>and <i>Galileo's Dream</i>. In 2008 he was named one of <i>Time </i>magazine's "Heroes of the Environment." He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
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