![]() Blue Mars follows those same characters after the events of Green Mars, and is largely a description of how they choose to spend the end of their lives. Green Mars similarly takes place over the next several decades, and resolves the conflict over the future of Mars and its relationship with Earth. They use automated construction equipment to build towns and cities, seed the planet with heat-producing windmills and genetically modified lichen that can survive the harsh environment, dig kilometer-wide moholes to release the heat of the planet's interior into the atmosphere, become self-sustaining, and are joined by tens of thousands of additional immigrants from Earth. Red Mars follows ten of the first hundred colonists and tells the story of the first forty years of life on Mars through their eyes. ![]() 100 scientists, engineers, and astronauts take the first colony ship to cross the interplanetary gap. The books start in the year 2027, and humanity is colonizing Mars. ![]() If you are into hard sci fi at all, I highly recommend checking out at least the first book in the trilogy ( Red Mars, which won the Nebula award in 1993). These are truly unique books! So much focus on the technology and what could be possible in the nearish future. ![]()
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