Red Mars (edit title)

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Red Mars Wednesday, November 25 2009.

• Added an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association)
• Added category of an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Best science fiction or fantasy novel
• Added year of an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) 1993

Kevin approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 7 books, including Red Mars, Wednesday, November 25 2009.

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 7 books, including Red Mars, Wednesday, November 25 2009.

Amanda approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of Red Mars Monday, October 12 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of Red Mars Monday, October 12 2009.

Ben Griffiths edited the series of Red Mars Monday, August 31 2009.

• Changed the order to 01 for this book in the series: The Mars Trilogy

Ben Griffiths edited the series of Red Mars Saturday, August 29 2009.

• Added this book in the series: The Mars Trilogy (Primary series)

Ben Griffiths edited the table of contents of Red Mars Saturday, August 29 2009.

• Part One: Festival Night
  Part Two: The Voyage Out
  Part Three: The Crucible
  Part Four: Homesick
  Part Five: Falling Into History
  Part Six: Guns Under the Table
  Part Seven: Senzeni Na
  Part Eight: Shikata Ga Nai

Ben Griffiths edited the first sentence of Red Mars Saturday, August 29 2009.

• Mars was empty before we came.

Shelfari edited the description of Red Mars Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life...and death. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces--for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed. Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.