bhrfletcher 's review for:

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.0
adventurous informative tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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.