A review by olliums
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

man i read this and my main takeaway was like 'wow this really is like the basis that informs every aspect of Terraforming Mars the board game huh.' Other than that i don't know. took me a LONG ASS TIME to get thru this one, it's dense, it has a lot of thoughts about idk bacteria and pylons and CO2. This is obviously a quite old example of KSR but i can see why in more recent books he seems to have gone with many characters giving different perspectives on world events, since his strengths seem to be in ideas rather than character work. like he DOES characters here but i'm not sure he should have. not sure i will pick up the next two- i'm interested in theory but throughout this book i Trudged