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Red Mars

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts.

For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the remarkable story of the world they create - and the hidden power struggles of those who want to control it.

Although it is fiction, Red Mars is based on years of research. As living spaces and greenhouses multiply, an astonishing panorama of our galactic future rises from the red dust. Through Richard Ferrone's narration, each scene is energized with the designs and dreams of the extraordinary pioneers.

©1993 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2000 Recorded Books Fantasy Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction
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Critics' reviews

  • Nebula Award, Best Novel, 1993

"Generously blending hard science with canny insight into human strengths and weaknesses, this suspenseful sf saga should appeal to a wide range of readers." (Library Journal)
"The ultimate in future history." (Daily Mail)
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eigentlich super spannend aber soziokulturell unaushaltbar engstirnig. Klischees ohne Ende. In verbindung mit dem Sprecher und seiner wenig emphatischen Stimme echt keinen Bock mehr.

nationalistisch und kulturalistisch

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I know the main characters now, but I did not feel any emotional attachement to them at all. The plot is really slow, but even when there's action it did not draw me in much more than the endless descriptions of Mars' geological formations.
Would probably have stopped reading if this wasn't an audiobook.

Nerdy side note: The automation is just ridiculous. They are manually flying planes that were manufactured by a completely automated factory. They very quickly start to produce crazy luxury items like wine on Mars and seem to have just endless raw materials to build their machines with. Procuring and refining minerals seems to be no problem at all, but apparently there much manual programming effort needed (on Mars, because you can't prepare stuff like that on Earth, obviously) to get brick laying robots to build houses.

This book was recommended from many different sources. I really can't understand why.

Could not emotionally engage me at all

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Die Mars-Trilogie von KSR hatte ich als fleißiger Mitleser bei r/printsf natürlich schon lange auf dem Schirm und die Landung des NASA-Rovers Perseverance hat nun den perfekten Anlass geboten, in die berühmte Reihe einzusteigen.

Wow, ich bin absolut begeistert. Alles wirkt unheimlich fundiert und recherchiert. Der Autor muss sich intensivst in die Geologie des Mars eingearbeitet haben, denn die Beschaffenheit und das darauf basierendiere Terraforming werden ausführlich und mit Fachterminologie im Stile einer "Hard Sci-Fi" beschrieben. Viele kritisieren dies, ich fand es genial. Aber auch davon abgesehen bietet dieses Buch tiefgründige philosophische Debatten und wilde politische Revolution. Der eigentliche Star des Buchs bleibt aber der Mars.

Richard Ferrone ist im Übrigen ein fantastischer Erzähler und ich freue mich schon auf die Nachfolger 'Green' und 'Blue Mars'.

Wowowowow - erstes Durchhören zu Ehren von Percy

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This really scratched that itch I had for some nice retro hard sci-fi. As a molecular biologist it’s especially fun to see how optimistically the author projected 90s biotech into the future. I really appreciate the extensive research. Only critic I have is the dominance of Malthusian theory which I believe is fundamentally flawed and has been regurgitated in pop science so much that everyone just believes it’s true. Otherwise this book feels like it’s playing between stand on Sansibar and the expands so for fans of either I can recommend.

Great hard sci-fi

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Für Leser, die an der Marsbesiedlung und wissenschaftlich fundierten Hintergründen dazu interessiert sind, bietet das Buch massig Fakten und plausible Fiktion. Leider hat es dabei wenig und mäßige Story. gerade am Anfang scheint es, als existierten die Charaktere nur, um zur ausschweifenden Beschreibung der Geologie und Geografie des Planeten verschiedene Fakten aus anderen Forschungsgebieten beizutragen. Schade, ich hatte mehr erwartet.

Mehr Fakten als Fiktion

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