Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planets hostile, barren beauty. But not everyone wants to see the process through. It picks up a bit on the last few pages and I may start on Green Mars if I can borrow it from somebody.About the Book Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. For all I care they could have flow to Mars on the back of a whale, wearing plastic cups for breathers, if only the story and the characters had been interesting.

If you are really, really interested in the technical aspects of colonising mars, you may love this book - or maybe you won't - I'm interested, but I was so bored that I didn't care. I was that close to giving up half way through it. It read like a history book written after the colonisation of mars, written by the most boring historian you can imagine. There are a few interesting ideas on colonisation of Mars but these drown in the endless boredom of the characters. John and Frank drone on and on about Maya and the power struggle while they endlessly drive around Mars describing one red landscape after another. Nadia goes on and on about how she helps build all kinds of stuff on Mars (and bitch about how Maya drones on and on about the power struggle).

It's a mystery to me how this book won the 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel, it may be fairly accurate and close to how-it-could-be, but it's booooring! My version of the book is 570 pages and nothing happens on the first 500 pages! Maya drones on and on about the power struggle in the ship on the voyage to Mars. If you can read this book without falling asleep, you will probably be able to endure the boredom of being locked into a small can for one or two years on the way to Mars (I failed - fell asleep twice, something that I usually never do while reading). Clarke saying '.It should be required reading for the colonists of the next century' – not sure about making it required reading, maybe it can be used as a test. The front page of this book has a quote from Arthur C.

Green mars by kim stanley robinson