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Green Mars continues Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed saga that began with the award‑winning Red Mars. Nearly a generation after the first settlers arrived, the novel focuses on the newborn generation—children born on Mars—who must confront both the challenges of terraforming and the ideological battle over whether to transform the planet into a familiar world or preserve its alien, barren horizon. Key figures such as Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell return to aid the conflict, and the protagonist Peter Clayborne leads a rebellion that seeks to protect Mars’s raw beauty. Amid scientific ambition and political struggle, the story explores themes of environmental change, identity, and humanity’s place at the edge of the solar system.
First publish date: 1901
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson
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