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a_a_ron3891 's review for:
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
This sprawling epic of Mars colonization was interesting for its ecology & terraforming thought exercises. The rest of the speculative science was not very detailed and the culture and characters inhabiting Mars just weren't compelling for me. The idea of a joint USA/Russian Mars mission composed of an anarchic bunch of individualists is a very silly foundation for a book like this. The author's writing style seems to bridge a gap between types of classic and modern scifi, which given it's publication date of 1993 is probably about right.