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	Review of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
		Though powerful selfaware AIs are nonexistent in the Mars Triology and the setting is the nearfuture, the novels can still be described as being quite relevant for OA simply because of the use of correct science, and the visions about possible new ways of organizing societies, and economies under the influence of accelerating technology.
		Mars is also a world were great mineral riches can be gained and a possible "lifeboat" if conditions back on Earth goes terminal, so mighty transnational companies and megacorporations begins heavy investment in terraforming and infrastructure on Mars, including a orbital "beanstalk" elevator.
		This process in which Mars becomes a part of the megacorporate "fiefdoms" further increases tensions, and the situation is brought to a peak by the invention of a geriatic treatment which extends the maximum human lifespan to +200 years.
	www.orionsarm.com /books/Mars_Trilogy.html (1114 words)

	Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars.
		As the Mars trilogy draws to a close, in the mid 22nd Century, the metanational corporations are forced by a global catastrophe to concede more democratic powers to their workforces.
		The Mars trilogy rights were at one point held by James Cameron [1], who planned a five-hour miniseries to be directed by Martha Coolidge[2], but he passed on the option.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_trilogy (2662 words)

	Giving Mars Back its Heartbeat :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Mars lived fast, died young and left a beautiful body - the Sylvia Plath approach to planetary science.
		Mars is beautiful the way it is, but I think it would be even better if we could restore the biosphere that it once had.
		Mars is a place that may be terraforming on a regular basis.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article1017.html (1839 words)

	The Mars Trilogy Encyclopedia - The Kim Stanley Robinson Encyclopedia
		The Mars trilogy is Kim Stanley Robinson's most well known work.
		It is the epic, yet realistic, saga of the colonization and terraforming of the planet Mars by the human race.
		Mars • Tharsis • Valles Marineris • Hellas • Argyre • Olympus Mons • Pavonis Mons
	ksrwiki.philosophicalzombie.net /wiki/The_Mars_Trilogy_Encyclopedia (266 words)

	Amazon.com: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first installment in Robinson's (Blind Geometer) new trilogy is an action-packed and thoughtful tale of the exploration and settlement of Mars--riven by both personal and ideological conflicts--in the early 21st century.
		If Red Mars has faults, they are that it is fairly humourless, and some of the science (nothing, fortunately, important to the principle of convincing the reader that colonization is possible) is somewhat stretched.
		Posing more problems than answers, Red Mars leaves the reader uneasy about humanity's progress, with a mix of optimism about what we can do, and pessimism for what we are likely to do; it portrays characters the reader can feel for, and a planet to fall in love with.
	www.amazon.com /Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735 (2143 words)

	Blue Mars Review
		A significant conflict, continuing from the first two books, is that between the hardline "Reds" (who wish Mars restored to as Mars-like a condition as possible), and nearly everybody else, who are to one degree or another "Green", wishing to maintain Mars as a comfortably human-habitable planet.
		Another view would be that, since Blue Mars is to some considerable extent about rapprochement between the Reds and the Greens, and also between Mars and Earth, that Blue is to be read as a compromise color between Red and Green.
		For me, however, the key to the meaning of this title is in a moving passage in the middle of the book; where one of the main characters, having formed the habit of "cataloguing" the changing Martian sunsets, and analyzing their color, sees one sunset which is a perfect blue, color of Earth's sky.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/bluemars.htm (900 words)

	Annexing Mars :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Summary (Mar 28, 2004): Terraforming, the global alteration of climate and living conditions on another world, was once solely the province of science fiction.
		Terraforming Mars has been the subject of research of one of the panelists, Dr. Chris McKay, since the 1970s.
		Mars is the planet most similar to Earth, and therefore it should be the easiest planet to terraform with current technology.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article898.html (856 words)

	Novels: Kim Stanley Robinson: The Mars Trilogy (1992-1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Robinson's Mars trilogy is probably the most ambitious modern science fiction story with terraforming as its theme.
		The plot of the trilogy expands from an isolated, local criminal affair to events of vast proportions.
		And throughout the human struggle, the face of Mars continues to change as the atmosphere thickens, the temperature rises, seas form, and plants spread along the chasms and craters.
	home10.inet.tele.dk /terra/mars_trilogy.html (203 words)

	Amazon.com: Green Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Green Mars continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In Red Mars, the initial work in the trilogy, the first 100 scientists chosen to explore the planet disintegrated in disagreement--in part because of pressures from forces on Earth.
		Several political factions exist: the Reds, those committed to the maintenance of Mars in its primal state, even if that means the expulsion of humans (the Reds were responsible for one wave of the revolution); then there are the Greens, those dedicated to terraformation and viriditas, life's natural pattern of growth and complexity...
		This is what places his Mars Trilogy at the forefront of all science fiction, as one of the most relevant and prescient accounts of humanity's future.
	www.amazon.com /Green-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553572393 (3226 words)

	MarsNews.com - The Mars Store
		Mars buffs all over the world should be glad she stuck to the stars.
		While Mars (a big red marble) orbits the outer ring of the game board, you'll navigate the inner three orbital rings in an effort to be the first to land on Mars.
		Landing on Mars is not easy--it's a volatile planet that is constantly on the move.
	www.marsnews.com /store (5029 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Probably the most impressive aspect of Red Mars is that despite its obvious hard-sf nature Robinson works hard to put the characters at the forefront of the story.
		The plot is fairly straightforward in that it concerns the colonisation of Mars and its "terraforming" (artificially transforming its climate to make it like Earth) by a group of 100 men and women from Earth later this century.
		However the quality of the characterisation is excellent, the standard of writing high and the other-worldliness and melancholia of Mars is conveyed perfectly by the author.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0586213899 (1445 words)

	Mars
		Almost all Mars’ Flags I have seen have the symbol, indeed the most remarkable aspect of the design of the Mars Society flag is that it does not include it.
		A Mars symbol on a flag these days would be ambiguous, given that biologists use it for "male", though I suppose sufficient exposure could change public perception of that.
		The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.
	flagspot.net /flags/qp-4.html (814 words)

	Epinions.com - Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Series
		This is the story of their flight, their landing, and the first years on the surface of Mars.
		Green Mars follows the story of the terraforming of Mars, from the perspective of a few of the original characters, and from the perspective of some of their children.
		In Red Mars, the characters raise issues about the future of Mars, and what their role is in shaping that future.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-7880-F425376-38B438CA-bd3 (970 words)

	Book review of The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
		Factions on Mars are fighting each other for control of the vision and while Robinson gets to continue his dense plotting and dialogue, the big science leads to some equally big and exciting bangs.
		But if Mars is to ever gain freedom from Earth, then a consensus will be needed between the often violently antagonistic splinter groups, most notably the Reds (those who want to keep Mars as it is) and the Greens, proponents of the terraforming program.
		Given that the terraforming of Mars is likely to be a project of great duration, Robinson has also pulled a neat trick to avoid introducing a whole new set of characters each volume, having created a longevity treatment that can theoretically extend the useful lifespan of a human to well over a century.
	www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk /red_mars_green_mars_blue_mars.htm (1141 words)

	Review: The Martians
		Newcomers to Robinson's Mars trilogy will still have a good reason to read this book as there are still some great short stories that are unrelated to the main sequence storyline.
		Adrian Hon is the editor of New Mars and a graduate student at Oxford University.
		While Joel's correct that all the main sequence Mars Trilogy stories in 'The Martians' is original, the first two stories set on Roger and Eileen's Mars-'Exploring Fossil Canyon' and 'Green Mars' were originally published in 1982 and 1985 respectively.
	www.newmars.com /archives/000033.shtml (1961 words)

	USATODAY.com - A different kind of rock star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But a rover on Mars is human accomplishment, he says, regardless of the nation responsible.
		"Mars occupies a special place for us," says Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit research firm in Menlo Park, Calif. "It really is a Rorschach blot for everybody's hopes and anxieties around the notion that we're not alone in this universe.
		In 1894, he built the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., to map Mars, where he soon concluded there was intelligent life surviving only by piping polar ice cap water to their desert homes.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-01-09-mars-cover_x.htm (1656 words)

	Cameron Sending Two Missions to Mars
		In a speech given earlier this month at the second annual International Mars Society conference in Boulder, CO, the Hollywood heavyweight and self-confessed "Mars wacko" called the journey to other planets "the greatest dream" of his own boyhood science fantasies.
		Cameron's two upcoming Mars projects are part of that goal.
		With that in mind, Cameron shared the basics of the mission architecture both the IMAX film and the miniseries will share, teasing his Mars-hungry audience with numerous design sketches of the vehicles that the films will bring to life.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/cameron_mars_speech_825.html (382 words)

	the wonderful wizard of mars \| MetaFilter
		Like the scientist-intellectual class in Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy, the members of this Guild elect volunteer leaders to fulfill the group's administrative functions.
		The trilogy is great not for its descriptions of space elevators and artificial gravity but rather because it is a fine example of Feministische phantastische-utopische Literatur and represents insightful social commentary.
		Ditto; reading the Mars Trilogy is the single event that got me deeply involved in the Mars exploration advocacy world (maintaining multiple websites, running magazines, making Mars maps and even going to Utah to take part in a Mars simulation base) - apparently KSR has this effect on a lot of people...
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22741 (546 words)

	Bantam Dell Publishing Group
		He is the author of ten previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica–for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers' Program.
		The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy...
		Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award...
	www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=25839 (564 words)

	Mars in the Mind of Earth: Novels - Full List
		Has appendix at end titled "New Colonist's Guide to Mars by Maury Pickford Governor, Terrority of Mars 2047", which discusses areophysics, climate, cities and camps on Mars, and Martian money.
		The Emir of Mars decides to visit Mecca and unite all the Islamic worlds, with a reluctant hero in tow.
		A diplomat on the outs is assigned to Mars just as the conists are ready to revolt.
	www.marsearth.com /novels/mpoli.html (629 words)

	Amazon.de: Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy): English Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The final volume of a trilogy that began with Red Mars and continued with Green Mars, Blue Mars completes the story of the "First Hundred", a pioneering group of explorers who have overseen a terraforming project that transformed Mars from a lifeless planet into a world habitable by humans.
		In the Mars trilogy Robinson created a science fictional science, and a science fictional Utopia - a world that is changed by the fictional creation of a science.
		Blue Mars, although suffering from a few passages of Robinson describing the landscape in a little too much detail, is a triumph of scale.
	www.amazon.de /Blue-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553573357 (2331 words)

	Bryan Eye - Science. Entertainment. Commerce. Robots.
		With Science Vision, I am currently in development on a Mars Trilogy, a 3 disc set of programs visualizing the Human Journey to Mars through stunning animations and a moving musical score.
		Mars is beacon of hope in several ways.
		Mars is an important goal for these reasons and more.
	www.bryaneye.com /marstrilogy.asp (279 words)

	Mars in the Mind of Earth: Novels - Full List
		Alexander, James B. The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon, and Mars; Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann.
		A man gets infected with a nanotech virus and goes to find how to release the trapped water on Mars, against the will of the current rulers.
		A young space miner seeking to terraform Mars with Oort cloud meteor strikes finds a conspiracy to send on of the huge objects to Earth.
	www.marsearth.com /novels/terra.html (467 words)

	MarsNews.com - Mars Movies
		At an hour-long speech at the 2nd annual Mars Society convention, Cameron unveiled many pre-production storyboards and renderings of the mission, the base, and a large hydraulic rover that is being constructed for the filming.
		Mars himself was the god of war, of blood lust, passion, death...
		Mars will be far off Hollywood's travel itinerary for some time to come after, first, Mission to Mars'' and now this second lousy picture of the year set on that most speculated-about Earthly neighbor.
	www.marsnews.com /focus/movies (11554 words)

	Printed Matter -- Kim Stanley Robinson Antartica -- Page
		The trilogy describes the human habitation of Mars and the terraformation of Mars to support human life - a complicated evolution involving engineering, politics and biological sciences that Robinson follows for 200 years in 1,600 pages.
		"Mars was big news for the first time in many years," he said.
		Before "A Martian Romance" is released, readers will have the opportunity to see what Robinson describes as a natural progression to his Mars trilogy and this is "Antarctica," a future history about the terraforming of the South Pole.
	test.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/1997/antarctica.html (885 words)

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