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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Dal primo passo dell'ammaraggio all'inizio della vita su Marte dei Primi Cento scienziati che poi andranno a studiare e cercare di terraformare (con le difficoltà del caso, che diventeranno anche politiche) una storia affascinante e molto verosimile su come effettivamente potrà svolgersi il primo vero viaggio sul Pianeta Rosso.
Il primo volume di una trilogia straordinaria.
Il primo volume di una trilogia straordinaria.
I found this sitting in a pile of free books outside the local bakery and, having heard of it for years, decided to give it a go. It’s fascinating and entirely not what I expected. After a great start the book slows to a crawl as the business of life on Mars takes shape. There are a few welcome time jumps and then an absolutely blistering final third. I’ll have to read the sequels I guess.
adventurous
hopeful
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love many things about this book. The description of the Mars landscape, technology, architecture, geo-areo-politics, and interpersonal/cultural dynamics of the characters is very deep. This, I think, is the strength of Kim Stanley Robinson's writing. He sets up a series of theoretical events, inventions, and players then researches the heck out of everything, and constructs a very detailed narrative so we can fully join him in this imagined realm of possibility. Really feel the grit and the fear of colonizing an empty place.
I got the audiobook from the library certain I had started but not finished this book on my prior read. However, and it turned out 25 hours of listening later that I had finished it! So the plot is maybe secondary to the other great things here, or muddled in my memory by the structure of the book. Still not a drawback. The ending didn't stick with me because there is room for more - the other two books in the series! The end of Red Mars was more curtain lowering at intermission than the end of the final act.
I got the audiobook from the library certain I had started but not finished this book on my prior read. However, and it turned out 25 hours of listening later that I had finished it! So the plot is maybe secondary to the other great things here, or muddled in my memory by the structure of the book. Still not a drawback. The ending didn't stick with me because there is room for more - the other two books in the series! The end of Red Mars was more curtain lowering at intermission than the end of the final act.
DNF @ 7%. Every scene is summary. I just can't wade through any more
Book 95 done. Wasn't an especially exciting read, but I think it is a accurate interpretation of what would happen if humanity tried to colonize Mars.
Another great “new” author for me, and one who managed to match the quality of Asimov’s best works in terms of excitement. I always wanted to keep reading more and despite the challenges of the geography references, I could picture the conflict as though it were produced by HBO. For an old book it holds up incredibly well barring some of the cultural generalizations (though those are often from the characters’s pov)
A bittersweet ending for the 100 but glad to have a clear jumping off point for the next book. Curious as to the time jump over the rest of the series but the treatments give me hope. KSR has cemented himself as a titan of sci-fi in my book and I hope the stand-alone novels can deliver characters and events like these.
A bittersweet ending for the 100 but glad to have a clear jumping off point for the next book. Curious as to the time jump over the rest of the series but the treatments give me hope. KSR has cemented himself as a titan of sci-fi in my book and I hope the stand-alone novels can deliver characters and events like these.
Mars is definitely "Hard Sci-fi" and maybe isn't for everyone. I LOVED the detailed and imaginative story of the planet, however I had a really hard time caring about the characters. They would pop into the narrative and become the focus of the story only to be unceremoniously removed once their part of the book was over.
I'll probably forget about the characters soon after finishing the book, however it sparked my imagination and I'll probably dream about Mars for a long time.
Giving it three stars because I consider that to still be a good rating, but I really can't recommend this book to everyone.
I'll probably forget about the characters soon after finishing the book, however it sparked my imagination and I'll probably dream about Mars for a long time.
Giving it three stars because I consider that to still be a good rating, but I really can't recommend this book to everyone.
Sooooooo slow! There were periods that were interesting, but it was so fragmented and cerebral.