num_pages: 400
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 a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers and Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life and death. The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth. Massive tunnels, kilometers deep, will be drilled into the 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 evolution, creating a world in its entirety. It shows a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.
language: English
title: Red Mars
titlecomplete: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
characters: Frank Chalmers, Ann Clayborn, Sax Russell, John Boone, Maya Toitovna
genres: Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Audiobook, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 79898
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: HarperCollins Publishers