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Red Mars: There are few words that can aptly describe what you feel at the end of Red Mars as a reader. Access to the epic work is due to the criss-crossed by technical terms narrative, the interleaved, long sentences and the detailed descriptions of the technical and geological backgrounds anything but easy. But who has persevered until the end, can not fail, to collapse the least nearly 600-page trilogy beginning with a reverent sigh. The monumental story brings a not only the planet Mars closer and making its past and its described in the book of the future for the people clearly, but it leads one also impressively demonstrated that people everywhere take their problems and concerns through with it. Without question, I found some passages in the book difficult to read, as they sometimes have suggested a lethargy in the characters, which can not be reconciled with the spirit of adventure. But considering that period includes Red Mars, it is clear that self-discovery eternal man is not enough incentive to offer. The political and social issues raised by the author Kim Stanley Robinson, are even 22 years after the emergence of the novel and valid today perhaps more relevant than ever. The intransigence with which he braces the novel and its diverse interwoven stories that tour de force, which he turns fearless here have impressed me with the most. So one might the book until completely understand if you read the two sequels, but impressive the beginning could hardly have failed.

Green Mars: The context, in the author Kim Stanley Robinson wants to embed his Mars trilogy, is slowly taking shape in the second part. During the colonization is steered to the disastrous events at the end of Red Mars within controlled channels, it is now the change of near-Earth planet, the Green Mars also gives its title. And so one of those moment about 20 pages before the end of an event the earth on Mars reflects one of the most striking of the two books. You testified in wonder and awe in a sense, as a reader, if Robinson shows how far the planet was because already altered by terraforming. These moments, or even if the effects of the flood of 2061 be made clear, have made the novel for me worth reading. On the character of developments there as little to complain about, but I was not going on that feeling, which describe the aging figures: a permanent deja vu. That not every novel must be told with rushed pace, is unquestionable. But even if the author does so the time felt that comprises the novel, there are numerous places in the book where the story seems to occur on the spot. Quickly Green Mars therefore not read, quite the contrary. But return you can lose in the indescribable level of detail with which a universe is brought to life before the eyes of the reader.

Blue Mars: The ultimate realization of Blue Mars, so much can be revealed is very easy to understand. Namely, that it sometimes takes a lifetime before you realize what you had right before our eyes for so long. So, people can find on Mars, at least those who originally came from the earth, ultimately there yourself. This is the first moment not much, but everything they originally brought with him. As author Kim Stanley Robinson's story continues in the completion of the trilogy, reminiscent less of a discovery or adventure novel than to a distant future in a continuously spun study the development of social forms of society. Whether it is the Mars itself or the various other human colonies in the solar system, all of them are for the purpose that people will find a way to create a fulfilling and equitable coexistence. Without the burden of the earth. No wonder then, that this is only possible when a generation comes to power that no longer sees the earth as a home. Robinson draws the fate of mankind is determined as of themselves, as long as (and this is perhaps the most interesting contribution) that generation which makes preparations for a Golden Age, is also willing to accept that it can not start until they are no longer there are. In this respect, the epic novel adheres to something like a hopeful melancholy that one can sometimes detect in humans upscale ages. Blue Mars focus is by the predecessors in nothing, not exceed it however. The novel places exceeds a metaphysical border, which makes it difficult to access, and that is not really necessary at times. Yet arises only as the overall picture of a trilogy that profound could hardly be, and which is still riddled simultaneously with so many insights that you might think that the author had so experienced it in order to play it so lively and multifaceted can. For me, the Mars trilogy is thus an important milestone in the science fiction genre. What's more, a guide of how human society might develop if they do not perish in their own achievements. Whether the gerontological treatment for this is necessary, at least provides material for mind games. After all, it is as of Kim Stanley Robinson described as a curse as a blessing. As a pair of twins, which is part inevitably together. As the Earth and Mars.