The Martians (Bantam Spectra Book)

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most cheap sony games series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. A modern-day classic of the genre, this epic saga deftly portrays the human stories behind Earth's most ambitious project yet: the terraforming of Mars.

Now, following the publication of his acclaimed adventure novel, Antarctica, Robinson returns to the realm he has made his own, in a work that brilliantly weaves together a futuristic setting with a poetic vision of the human spirit engaged in a drama as ancient as mankind itself.

From a training mission in Antarctica to blistering sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the interwoven stories of The Martians set in motion a sprawling cast of characters upon the surface of Mars. As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet men and women who are bound together by their experiences on Mars and with each other.

Among them are Michel, a French psychologist dazzled by the beauty around him; Maya, a woman whose ill-fated love affairs lead to her first voyage to Mars; and Roger, a tall Martian-born guide who lacks social skills but has the courage to survive on the planet's dangerous yet strangely compelling surface.

Beginning with the First Hundred explorers, generations of friends, enemies, and lovers are swept up in the drama that is Earth's tenuous toehold on Mars. International exploration turns into world building; world building degenerates into political conflict, revolution, and war.

Following the strands of these lives and events, in an age when human life has been extended for decades, The Martians becomes the story of generations lived on the edge of the ultimate frontier, in a landscape of constant man-made and natural transformation.

This new masterpiece by Kim Stanley Robinson is a story of hope and disappointment, of fierce physical and psychological struggles. Both deeply human and scientifically cutting edge, The Martians is the epic chronicle of a planet that represents one of humanity's most glorious possibilities.

A Letter from Kim Stanley Robinson:

"When I finished Blue Mars, I realized I wasn't done with Mars yet.  There were things I still wanted to say about the place, and about my characters from the trilogy, and there were a number of sidebar stories and characters that had found no place in the trilogy's structure.  I also had a couple of precursor Mars stories that did not fit the trilogy's history--'Exploring Fossil Canyon' and 'Green Mars'--and I had held these out of my earlier story collections thinking they belonged with the Mars group."

So all this material was there, and as I wrote Antarctica, I found myself drawn back into the matter of Mars repeatedly, by the discovery of possible life in meteorite AHL8004 and by the Pathfinder landing.  I decided to make a collection of Martian tales, and as I put them in roughly chronological order, I saw that they seemed to be adding up to their own larger story, functioning as the trilogy's 'unconscious' or 'secret history'.  Using all kinds of modes, from folk tales to scientific articles, from personal accounts to the full text of a constitution, I arranged things so that the book altogether tells the story of an underground and hard-to-see resistance to the terraforming described in the trilogy proper.  I had a great time doing these stories, and hope they add up to my own version of a Martian Chronicles."
Customer Review: Not Free SF Reader
The Martians is a set of short stories and anecdotes about people and places set in and around Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. An ok piece of extra work here, but nothing you need to rush out and get. It is not particularly memorable at all, in other words, but definitely is not bad. The Martians is a set of short stories and anecdotes about people and places set in and around Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. An ok piece of extra work here, but nothing you need to rush out and get. It is not particularly memorable at all, in other words, but definitely is not bad. It also includes eome poetry in the latter part. Martians : Michel in Antarctica - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Exploring Fossil Canyon - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : The Archaea Plot - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : The Way the Land Spoke to Us - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Maya and Desmond - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Four Teleogical Trails - Kim Stanley Robinson; Martians : Coyote Makes Trouble - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Michel in Provence - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Salt and Fresh - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : The Constitution of Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Jackie on Zo - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Keeping the Flame - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Saving Noctis Dam - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Big Man in Love - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Selected Abstracts from The Journal of Areological Studies - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Odessa - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Sexual Dimorphism - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Enough is as Good as a Feast - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : What Matters - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Coyote Remembers - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Sax Moments - Kim Stanley Robinson Martians : Purple Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson Psychiatric expedition evaluation. 4.5 out of 5 Dead life discovery. 3 out of 5 Terraforming fable. 3 out of 5 Chaotic terrain. 3 out of 5 Enamored stowaway story. 4 out of 5 Track turns. 2.5 out of 5 Anti Transformation agitation. 3.5 out of 5 Planetary leavings. 3.5 out of 5 High point achieved. 3.5 out of 5 A coach has to adapt the game to the physics of the red planet, and help a young man along the way. 4 out of 5 Fable watering. 3 out of 5 Legal document. 3.5 out of 5 Legal document discussion. 3.5 out of 5 Rugrat. 2.5 out of 5 Nirgal's new First Hundred meeting. 3.5 out of 5 Flimsy solution. 3 out of 5 Gonad reduction fable. 3 out of 5 Nuclear argument. 3 out of 5 Abstract science. 3.5 out of 5 Surface admiration. 2 out of 5 Women, men, pretty similar most of the time. Mammaries float differently while swimming, apparently. 4 out of 5 Crater living. 3.5 out of 5 Green discussion. 3 out of 5 Friends. 3.5 out of 5 Memory worries. 3.5 out of 5 Possibly Dead Mars. 3 out of 5 School time. 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Customer Review: Confusing, but might be very good after reading the full trilogy
I don't see how the spotlight reviewer who called this a "mixed bag" with "a lot of hit and miss" could give this book 5 stars. Those phrases are more appropriate for 3 stars. Having enjoyed KSR's Wild Shore series, I read this book after a friend gave it to me with the caveat that it might be hard to grasp before reading the Mars trilogy. It was, but I didn't feel "totally lost." The interplay of characters, politics, and terraforming comes through, even though it's thinly stretched over a long period of Martian history and there are too many gaps to make this book work as a standalone. Despite the confusing discontinuities in chronology, I found most of the book engaging and only skimmed during the poetry section. There's a lie on the back cover: this book does not contain "new novellas." There is only one novella, a tedious 96-page tale of climbing the tallest mountain that was originally published in 1985, years before the trilogy. The next longest pieces are three stories in the 30-35 page range, one of which (Fossil Canyon) appeared in 1982. Yes, the poetry is bad, as are the Paul Bunyon type myths and the self-referential final chapter about the author dragging his toddler along as he mails the manuscript. But KSR is merely indulging the vanity of a successful author, as Heinlein (Green Hills of Earth ballad inside the namesake story) did before him and some non-SF authors have done since: they can get away with inserting poems that are unpublishable unless embedded in fiction. The book comes across as fragments pieced together in order to keep up the publisher's inventory. Even so, it could have been edited better. For example, the heights given in the cutaway diagram of Olympus Mons are 10x what the text says.

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