Mars - the red planet - is a barren landscape of mankind's dreams of space. This book follows the colonization of the planet, as a cratered wasteland is turned into a human habitation.
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Mars - the red planet - is a barren landscape of mankind's dreams of space. This book follows the colonization of the planet, as a cratered wasteland is turned into a human habitation.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Signed by Kim Stanley Robinson on title page. First UK edition, first printing with full number line, published by Harper Collins, 1992. Hardcover in jacket, price clipped from jacket flap. Text is clean and unmarked. Upper page edges have a fe fait spot stains, couple light bumps to page edges. Binding strong. A few bumps to board edges, slight slant to spine. Very good condition. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
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True first edition the first book of the Mars trilogy and winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. This copy signed by Robinson. Some soiling to the outside edge of the page block and bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Front free endpage has...
Red Mars tells the story of the colonization of Mars. It's the first book in a trilogy - followed by Green Mars and Blue Mars - which follows the fortunes both of the Martian colonization experience, and of the "First One Hundred" - the initial band of settlers who begin the process.
It's hard to imagine a more detailed and compelling book about extraterrestrial settlement and colonization every being written. The book, and the trilogy as a whole, is wonderfully written, with compelling characters (my favourite is Sax Russell), brilliantly imaginative scientific extrapolations, accurate information on the geology and geography of Mars, and sincere and thought-provoking ideas about human society.
