Red Mars

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Bank Holiday. elerrina_amanya ran her leg of the marathon in 44 minutes.

I went for a long walk in the fields, and am reading Red Mars. I'd started it before, but I don't think I was in the right mood for it. The characters aren't that important, Mars is important. In fact at the minute I'm a little annoyed with the characters for having all these human concerns when they could be terraforming.

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[may-child.livejournal.com]

I have all three of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books, but I haven't read them yet. I started Red Mars but I guess I wasn't in the right mood for it at the time either.

Robinson clearly likes to take on huge challenges, because after the Mars trilogy, he wrote The Years of Rice and Salt, which is an alternate history of the past 700 or so years.

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Yes, it is a mammoth undertaking. Apparently he did 17 years of research for the Mars trilogy.

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I remember it took me an effort to get through "Red Mars" myself, but I suppose that was a good few years ago. I did read Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt," but was perhaps caught by one of those things you don't quite expect when starting to read when he had the same characters being reincarnated over and over again.

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He does pretty much the same thing in the Mars trilogy except with the longevity treatments. Obviously he doesn't like inventing new characters for various stages of the epics. :)