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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win.

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THE FUTURE HISTORY OF MARS – PART THREE
FINALLY, MARS HAS GROWN UP. BUT EARTH HAS GROWN TOO MUCH.

Mars is a living, breathing planet, resplendent with genetically engineered plants and animals living by recently formed canals and stormy seas – an Eden to be envied. Earth is creaking under the weight of overdevelopment; too many people with too few resources: an object lesson in how to not run a planet.

The survivors of the First Hundred, among them Michel, Nadia, Maya, Sax, and Ann, have achieved their goal: political independence. They are like walking myths to a Martian youth determined to preserve their hard-won gains. But what to preserve and what to create? The original schisms in the First Hundred have hardened into polar opposites: Reds (to keep the planet in its original wilderness state) and Greens (to terraform for human use). Civil war looms. Worse, Earth looks on bitterly. For many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for – perhaps even die for.

"One of the finest works of American SF"
TLS

"Stunning visualisation of the beauty of this hostile planet. By the end you can't help feeling you understand the place"
TIME OUT

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD