A review by bhrfletcher
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

adventurous informative tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

First in the Mars trilogy written by a great of the sci-fi genre, it didn’t really follow a conventional plot structure and was constructed of a series of short episodes that combined to tell the long overarching story of the colonisation and terraforming of Mars. It reads like an early example of hard sci-fi takes the core plot idea more seriously than many similar stories, featuring failures and successes alike.