HARD SF · MARS TRILOGY · BOOK ONE

RED

MARS

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON · 1992 · BANTAM SPECTRA

"Mars was a dead world. Now it is alive — and the battle for its soul has begun."

In 2026, the first hundred colonists land on Mars. What follows is the most ambitious work of hard science fiction ever written — a century-spanning epic that tracks the terraforming of an entire planet, the political factions that form around it, and the profound question of whether humanity has the right to transform a world.

Robinson's Mars Trilogy is a masterwork of ecological and political science fiction — as much about the human relationship with wilderness as it is about space exploration. The Reds want to preserve Mars as it is. The Greens want to make it liveable. The argument is still raging. A full editorial experience is being assembled. Check back soon.