![]() Chapters and chapters and chapters of nothing but description of the landscape. ![]() Which is to say, there are interesting characters, tons of huge ideas, but also huuuuge swaths of all three books that are literally just someone driving around. Robinson is a great writer, though definitely a hybrid of the old-school “big idea” writers of the mid-20th century, and the more character-and-story-based sci-fi writers of today. ![]() It’s a beautifully detailed and carefully created universe. Think The Martian movie with more people and less jokes. Not only is the humans-against-nature conflict prevalent throughout, Robinson dives into the inevitable politics of a new planet, especially the nearby neighbor of one so overpopulated. You’d think books based on terraforming would be boring, but they’re not. They take place over roughly 200 years, though thanks to medical treatments, many of the characters appear in all three books. ![]() Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars are ostensibly about the colonization and terraforming of Mars. It’s called the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, and if you’ve never heard of it, allow me a few minutes to recommend it, and why the TV show will probably be great. I’d written about the TV show and the excellent books they were based on last year, and now I’ve got some info on another sci-fi series headed to TV. ![]()
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