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Red Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

One hundred settlers arrive on Mars to build a new world—and divide over what it should become.

GenresSci-Fi
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About Red Mars

The first Mars colonists begin the immense task of terraforming the planet with mirrors, heat, ice-melt, and engineering on a planetary scale. But as ambitions grow, so do political and ideological conflicts between those who want Mars remade and those who would preserve it.

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Series

Mars Trilogy · Book 1 of 3

Content warnings
  • sexual content
  • murder
  • war
  • racism
  • sexism
  • xenophobia
  • classism

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