Hardcover, 607 pages

English language

Published July 1996 by Bantam Spectra.

ISBN:
978-0-553-10144-7
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OCLC Number:
904447552
ISFDB ID:
265

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The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, covered by seas and settlements, mars has been dramatically terraformed from a desert world into one where humans can flourish. All that remains is to finish creating a breathable atmosphere and an ecosystem hull of wondrous genetically engineered Martian creatures.

But as Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. The Great Flood threatens an already overpopulated and polluted planet, and Mars faces a population explosion or an interplanetary war. Now the First Hundred settlers of Mars, having attained near immortality through longevity drugs, are pulled into a fierce new struggle. Ann, the head of the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, again takes on her old nemesis Sax Russell, who is an architect of the "green" terraformers—and the consequences of their bitter battle will be an ice age that threatens to turn Mars …

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