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Green Mars

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1994
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See 10
Part 1 - Areoformation
Part 2 - The Ambassador
Part 3 - Long Runout
Part 4 - The Scientist as Hero
Part 5 - Homeless
Part 6 - Tariqat
Part 7 - What Is to Be Done?
Part 8 - Social Engineering
Part 9 - The Spur of the Moment
Part 10 - Phase Change
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 Mars Trilogy*
#2 of 4
Mars Trilogy*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A sience fiction series written by Kim Stanley Robinson.

1) Red Mars
2) Green Mars
3) Blue Mars
4) The Martians
Copyright © 1994 by Kim Stanley Robinson
for Lisa and David
The point is not to make another Earth.
May contain spoilers
And they went forward up the train.
No comments on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)
He was in the middle of a perfectly ordinary life when they drafted him and sent him to Mars.

The summons came in the form of a fax that appeared out of his phone, in the apartment Art Randolph had rented just the month before, after he and his wife had decided on a trial separation. The fax was brief: Dear Arthur Randolph: William Fort invites you to attend a private seminar. A plane will leave San Francisco airport at 9 A.M., February 22nd 2101.

Art stared at the paper in amazement. William Fort was the founder of Praxis, the transnational that had acquired Art’s company some years before. Fort was very old, and now his position in the transnat was said to be some kind of semiretired emeritus thing. But he still held private seminars, which were notorious although there was very little hard information about them. It was said that he invited people from all subsidiaries of the transnat; that they gathered in San Francisco, and were flown away by private jet to someplace secret. No one knew what went on there. People who attended were usually transferred afterward, and if not, they kept their mouths shut in a way that gave one pause. So it was a mystery.

Art was surprised to be invited, apprehensive but basically pleased. Before its acquisition he had been the cofounder and technical director of a small company called Dumpmines, which was in the business of digging up and processing old landfills, recovering the valuable materials that had been thrown away in a more wasteful age. It had been a surprise when Praxis had acquired them, a very pleasant surprise, as everyone in Dumpmines went from employment in a small firm to apprentice membership in one of the richest organizations in the world—paid in its shares, voting on its policy, free to use all its resources. It was like being knighted.

Art certainly had been pleased, and so had his wife, although she had been elegiac as well. She herself had been hired by Mitsubishi’s synthesis management, and the big transnational, she said, were like separate worlds. With the two of them working for different ones they were inevitably going to drift apart, even more than they already had. Neither of them needed the other anymore to obtain longevity treatments, which transnats provided much more reliably than the government. And so they were like people on different ships, she said, sailing out of San Francisco Bay in different directions. Like ships, in fact, passing in the night.

 

Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 28-Oct-2024

Quotes

But there were different types of intelligence, and not all of them were subject to analytic testing. Sax had noticed this fact in his student years: that there were people who would score high on any intelligence test, and were very good at their work, but who at the same time could walk into a room of people and within an hour have many of the occupants of that room laughing at them, or even despising them.
But now he recalled Kuhn, asserting that scientists who used different paradigms existed in literally different worlds, epistemology being such an integral component of reality. Thus Aristoteleans simply did not see the Galilean pendulum, which to them was a body falling with some difficulty; and in general, scientists debating the relative merits of competing paradigms simply talked right through each other, using the same words to discuss different realities.
It was always quite obvious why people were advocating one program over another; you could look at people’s name tags and see their institutional affiliation, and predict what they were going to support or attack. To see science twisted so blatantly pained Sax a great deal, and it seemed to him that it distressed everyone there, even the ones doing it, which added to the general irritability and defensiveness. Everyone knew what was going on, and no one liked it, and yet no one would admit it.
Liberal democracy says that cultural tolerance is essential, but you don’t have to get very far away from liberal democracy for liberal democrats to get very intolerant.
The shape of the government they made reflects the distrust these groups had for each other.
I know, I know. But they’ll solve them. I mean you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist.

Publications

 27-May-2003
Random House
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
27-May-2003
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$8.99
Pages*:
642
Read:
Once
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Internal ID:
1872
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ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
From amazon.com:

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic trilogy depicting the colonization of Mars continues in a thrilling and timeless novel that pits the settlers against their greatest foes: themselves.

Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those who are determined to preserve their home planet’s hostile, barren beauty. Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, partnerships, and rivalries explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.

Praise for Green Mars

“One of the major sagas of the [latest] generation in science fiction.” Chicago Sun-Times

“Dense as a diamond and as sharp; it makes even most good novels seem pale and insignificant by comparison.” The Washington Post Book World

“Grand in scope, meticulous in detail.” The New York Times Book Review
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 31-May-2008
Recorded Books
Book on CD
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Date Issued:
31-May-2008
Format:
Book on CD
Cover Price:
$35.95
Length:
27 hrs 10 min
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1875
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Richard Ferrone  - Narration
From audible.com:

In Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson imagined a near future in which humankind established the first colonies on Mars and began to make the planet inhabitable for humans. In this stunning sequel to that Nebula Award-winning novel, Robinson takes the colonization of Mars to a new generation, with a new set of problems and concerns.

The initial Martian pioneers had fierce disagreements about how the planet should be used by humans. This led to a war that threatened the lives of billions of people on both Mars and Earth. Now, the second generation of settlers continues the struggle to survive the hostile yet strangely beautiful environment of the red planet. Their decisions and actions will ultimately determine whether Mars will simply be a sanctuary for scientists, a source of raw materials for Earth, or something much more.

Richard Ferrone's robust narration of this thrilling, timeless tale captures the fascinating diversity of Robinson's compelling characters, taking listeners to the farthest frontier of humanity's struggle to survive.
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27-May-2003
Random House
Kindle e-Book

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31-May-2008
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Awards

1993British Science Fiction AssociationBest Novel Nominee
1994Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Winner
1994World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Winner
1995Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaNebula Award - Best Novel Nominee
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