Tips of volumes two and three reinforced with tape. Blue Mars has a toned text block as is common, and a slight lean. Green Mars has a few marks to the top of the block and a couple of bumps to the spine. Red Mars has a little spotting to the top edge. 1 The author later said that he wrote the story 'mainly to stake a claim at least a moral claim on the. The series has been optioned for television more times than I can remember, but it hasn't yet gotten off the ground. ' Green Mars ' is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name. It is also, of course, in Andrews & Rennison's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels - I wrote that sentence before checking. Broderick & Di Filippo feature the trilogy in their excellent 101 Best Novels (1985-2010), comparing it to a 20th Century War & Peace, not simply due to the length, but the depth of research and sheer scope of it. Collectively, the trilogy has won two Hugos, two Locus awards, one Nebula and one BSFA award. Certainly a key work for any collection of modern science fiction, and Robinson is one of the most important contemporary writers. One of the finest works on Mars ever written. London, Harper Collins / Voyager, 1992-1996.
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