![]() ![]() Among further complications: practical immortality, discovered by Martian scientists the building of a space elevator ice asteroids to pound the Martian crust, bringing water and thickening the atmosphere vast Moholes excavated to tap vital heat from the core and the ingenious creation of life forms genetically engineered to survive the harsh conditions. Each phase of the latter process is told from a different character's point of view, and thus Robinson constructs an intricate and fascinating mosaic of science and politics, love and betrayal, survival and discovery, murder and revolution. Robinson's Mars is realistically cold, arid, and lifeless and even before they reach the planet, his first hundred scientist- colonists are hotly debating how Mars should be terraformed. First of a projected trilogy about the near-future colonization of Mars, from the author of Pacific Edge, Escape from Kathmandu, etc. ![]()
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