Green Mars

The second volume in the bestselling Mars trilogy - and now part of the Voyager Classics collection.Mars can be plundered - for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man's needs - frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, countries are bought and sold by the transnationals. Why not Mars too?Man's dream is underway, but so is his greatest test. The survivors of the First Hundred - Hiroko, Nadia, Maya and Simon among them - know that technology alone is not enough. Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world - but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe.

'Green Mars' is the second volume in Kim Stanley Robinson's monumental 'Mars' trilogy which began with 'Red Mars' and concludes with 'Blue Mars'. The product of years of dedicated research, and the author's fascination with Red Planet, the result is a timeless masterpiece, the ultimate in future history.

Frozen lakes form, lichen creeps over dry stone, a thin atmosphere wraps the planet. Man's dream of a new world is underway, but corrupted. Earth's transitional corporations have set about plundering Mars for profit. They but and sell countries, why not planets too? The survivors of the First Hundred known that technology alone won't bring utopia; but although in the grasping corporations they have a common enemy, they cannot agree to a means, let alone an end. Do they want bloody revolution or peaceful co-existence? It seems that trust and co-operation are as thin on the ground as the Martian air they breathe.

Robinson's intricately woven narrative deftly explores how the coming of people has changed Mars, and how Mars ha changed them. This central volume of an epic trilogy skilfully imagines the evolution of a society of a society on the fourth planet from the sun. In the words of Arthur C. Clarke, Robinson's books are "the best novels on the colonization of Mars that have ever been written."

Autorentext

Kim Stanley Robinson

Zusammenfassung
A child's summer song of heat and grief: one loveable, sensitive young boy's obsession with undoing the damage done.'I'm coming up to my ninth birthday. It's the spring of 1978. Our kilometre dial has clocked into thousands and started its cycle over and over again...Our car must keep going, always.'This is Jean-Pio's childhood: crisscrossing Europe, sandwiched between his two brothers on the back seat. Travelling to his grandfather's house deep in the French countryside, he's on the brink of discovering a secret that will change him forever. In the midst of his chaotic, wonderful family, Jean-Pio must save himself from drowning in panic, as if learning to breathe in water...