Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1992
Robinson's 1992 trilogy begins with 100 colonists transforming Mars while arguing about whether transformation is colonialism. Hard SF at its most rigorous, politically serious, and planetary in scale. The definitive terraforming novel.
The case against
Robinson will stop the story for thirty pages of areology, then thirty more of constitutional debate, and he considers this a feature. He is right, sometimes. The Maya-John-Frank triangle drags soap opera across two hundred pages, characters argue positions more than they live lives, and you must enjoy committee meetings on some level to reach the ending.
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