description: In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life...and death.The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.
title: Red Mars
titlecomplete: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
characters: Maya Toitovna, Sax Russell, Ann Clayborn, Frank Chalmers, John Boone
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 79936
places: Mars
series: Mars Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor Novela Extranjera, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Recorded Books Inc