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Red Mars

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
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Summary

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.

For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.

Although it is fiction, Red Mars is based on years of research. As living spaces and greenhouses multiply, an astonishing panorama of our galactic future rises from the red dust. Through Richard Ferrone's narration, each scene is energized with the designs and dreams of the extraordinary pioneers.

©1993 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2000 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Generously blending hard science with canny insight into human strengths and weaknesses, this suspenseful sf saga should appeal to a wide range of readers." ( Library Journal)
"The ultimate in future history." ( Daily Mail)

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s c i e n c e

Great characters, great plot, great research! I will definitely be going on the the next books.

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Best book I've read,

More fiction than science fiction very to date of how hard to live on Mars, the planet atmosphere and people trying to live there and with each other

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Not what I expected.

I found the setting believable and the knowledge of mars and space in general very interesting. However the storyline and narrative were all over the place and I found it hard to engage with any of the characters and even to finish the book. It sort of just faded out with nothing really happening and left me bewildered as to why I had bothered at all.

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Full on descriptions which distract from the story

Comprehensive and full-on descriptions of the environment and situations which does at times distract from the actual story line, making it feel long winded. Also occasionally the narration seems to make a slight pause or break as if it's the end of a paragraph but then continues as the same sentence, which can be a bit jarring to the listener. An ok story but not sure if I will be getting the next book in this series

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Colonisation of mars part 1

If the first colonists of mars don't read these books first, then they will be on mars un prepared for life there, its like this unready is in kims mind, an easy listen loved description of Arabian culture in ch 1 and how arabs took to mars a cold day in barren quarter!!! Excellent

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Outstanding!

Was great at every point and gave a varied look at what life would be like on mars and how it develops.
Though it very fall on and takes a while to get through

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Greatest Hard SciFi Story hampered by narrator

A little research by the narrator would have fixed so many pronunciation issues. Elysium pronounced Allyszhum is really annoying

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great story, week narration

I love this book I've read it twice and now listened to it, but the narrator's brutalisation of even normal words is jarring. even that can't diminish the story though.

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amazing

I'm just amazed of all the imagination and vast scientific research the author has done to create this book

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Hard sci fi

Somewhat dry to start with. it picked up towards the middle of the book and the end.

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