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Article note: I haven't done a lap on KSR's Mars trilogy in a while now, it was one of those "Change how you think about the world" books for me the first time around.
People whine about the amount of exposition, but the whole point is that it's a detailed/realistic/plausible world and that means it's complicated. (Also it's sort of incredible how well the science held up).
Okay, so finally, more than thirty years after it was published, I got around to reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, the first book in an epic trilogy about the first attempt to colonize Mars. I've really loved several of his books, particularly Aurora, from 2015 but Red Mars is the one that put KSR on the map. — Read the rest
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