Voyager Classics - Blue Mars [Paperback]

The final volume of a trilogy that began with Red Mars and continued with Green Mars, Blue Mars completes the story of the "First Hundred", a pioneering group of explorers who have overseen a terraforming project that transformed Mars from a lifeless planet into a world habitable by humans. An anti-ageing breakthrough has kept the First Hundred alive for three centuries and in that time, their motives, desires and passions have evolved in ways that parallel the changes on Mars itself. Conceptually complex and daring, the publication of Blue Mars marks the completion of a modern science fiction masterpiece. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘A beautiful book – to be lived in. Let most of it be true’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Staggering… Required reading for the colonists of the next century’
ARTHUR C. CLARKE

‘The ultimate in future history’
DAILY MAIL

The final novel in the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy, now part of the Voyager Classics collection.

Mars has grown up

It is fully terraformed – genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas.

It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.

Earth has grown too much

Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for… perhaps even die for.

Blue Mars is the concluding volume in Kim Stanley Robinson's monumental Mars trilogy which began with Red Mars and continued with Green Mars. The product of years of dedicated research, the series is a timeless masterpiece, the ultimate in future history.

Mars is now a living, breathing planet, resplendent with genetically engineered plants and animals living beside canals and teeming seas – an Eden to be envied. In this brave and buzzing new world the survivors of the First Hundred have become like walking myths to the Martian youth, but political schisms have hardened into polar opposites. And as civil war looms, an over populated earth looks on bitterly. For many Terrapins, Mars is mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for – perhaps even die for.

As the motives, desires and passions of the deftly-drawn characters evolve along with the planet they have made their home, Robinson brilliantly explores and interweaves the political, sociological, economic and scientific aspects of their terraforming effort in one of the twentieth century's finest works of science fiction.

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.