Robinson's contribution to this interstellar library is the text of his novel Green Mars and the cover art of Red Mars.
It also set the stage for two more sequels, both beasts in their own right.Īnd check this out: When the Phoenix robotic spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it brought with it a DVD containing the works of Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. It won the BSFA in 1992 and went on to win the Nebula a year later. This book is pretty epic, and critics heaped praise upon it to match. The colonists face plenty of trials and tribulations on the inhospitable Martian landscape, while back on Earth greedy politicians and transnational corporations have their own plans for the red planet. use the most advanced scientific technology and techniques to change the desert planet into a place that can sustain human life.īut did anybody say playing god was easy? Because it is not. Aboard the spaceship Ares, one hundred humans head off to colonize Mars. Published in 1993 but set in 2026, Robinson's novel tells just such an intrepid tale. Like so much science fiction, Stanley Kim Robinson's Red Mars originates from a gigantic "what if?" As in, what if humanity needs to colonize another planet because Earth begins falling apart beneath our feet? No hospitable planets exist within millions of light-years of our current planetary home, so we'd probably have to transform one of our solar neighbors to do the trick. What else can we do? Pack up and move to Mars? Oh, wait… No matter what fate befalls our planet, though, the human race will be along for the ride. Overpopulation, global warming, nuclear winter, and deadly asteroids are a few choice scenarios for the end of our beloved blue Earth.
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