I might have preferred the novel if we got less things happening and more description of the world. Other Books By Kim Stanley Robinson. . It seems too American for me. But I pushed that all behind me and approached this collection of short stories hoping that it would surprise me. Sadly I decided to put this down about halfway through.
Life is just too short.
The problem I think is that this collection is little more than an aside to the main story of the novels Red, Green and Blue Mars. I haven't read the novels and as a result I don't find the stories that interesting in themselves. There isn't anything wrong with them, apart from the fact that they assume you know the politics, the characters and the environment they are set in. Rather than continue with this review I am going to pass the book onto someone who has read the Mars trilogy and get them to review it for my readers who have also. He described it as a bit turgid.