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Red Mars was a fascinating read that I thoroughly enjoyed. The world built within it's pages is well developed, believable, and fascinating. The book is divided up into sections that tell chunks of the story from different people's perspectives. This shift in perspectives helps keep the book fresh which is important given how dense it can often be.
Highly descriptive and varied situations help bring the world alive, and the large number of competing perspectives on what to do with Mars is fascinating.
I wish I could bring myself to give it a five star rating, but I can't quite do it. There are some periods where the book drags a bit, most notably large chunks of the ending. There is a long travel sequence full of heavy description of what Mars looks like, a quick situation change, and then another very long travel sequence full of new description of what Mars looks like. While the scenario was interesting these travel sections could have been trimmed drastically (especially the final one).
That said, I will definitely pick up the next one, and I will be interested to see where the next two parts of the trilogy take the world.
Highly descriptive and varied situations help bring the world alive, and the large number of competing perspectives on what to do with Mars is fascinating.
I wish I could bring myself to give it a five star rating, but I can't quite do it. There are some periods where the book drags a bit, most notably large chunks of the ending. There is a long travel sequence full of heavy description of what Mars looks like, a quick situation change, and then another very long travel sequence full of new description of what Mars looks like. While the scenario was interesting these travel sections could have been trimmed drastically (especially the final one).
That said, I will definitely pick up the next one, and I will be interested to see where the next two parts of the trilogy take the world.