carly_morel 's review for:

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

4.0

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Sometimes the hardest books to read are the most rewarding and this was my experience with this book. Slowpaced, technical but brimming with ideas of how we would build civilisation on a different planet. Not just the technological aspects but what parts of our selves do we take up with us, love, jealousy, violence, beliefs, dance, culture, religion. And how does earth integrate to its colonies on another planet with its consumerist nature. Really heavy on the ideas but enough action and character progression to drive it forward. Anyone interested in the current talk of colonies on the moon would enjoy this book.