First US edition, 535 pages

English language

Published April 1994 by Bantam Spectra.

ISBN:
978-0-553-09640-8
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OCLC Number:
29361345
ISFDB ID:
1840

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Red Mars was a science fiction bestseller, a Hugo Award nominee for best novel, and a critical triumph. Thrilling readers with its drama, realism, and provocative ideas, Red Mars has become an instant classic of the genre. Now Kim Stanley Robinson returns with the eagerly awaited second novel in his epic saga of the colonization of Mars, a thrilling and timeless tale of humanity struggling to survive at its farthest frontier.

Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earth-like planet has just begun. In Green Mars the colonists will attempt to turn the red planet into a lush garden for humanity. They will bombard the atmosphere with ice meteorites to add moisture. They will see the red deserts with genetically engineered plants. Then they will tap the boiling planetary core to warm the planet's frozen surface.

But their heroic efforts …

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