Tag: Mars

  • Review of “Green Mars”

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    We return to Mars with Green Mars, book two of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up about fifty years after the end of the previous book it opens with Nirgal, a young man who is a descendant of several of the first hundred and who is constantly pushing himself forward. As he…

  • Review of “A Princess of Mars”

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    We are going back to classic science fiction with this next book, A Princess of Mars which is book one in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Carter has retired from fighting after the Civil War and is now working on mining when he is chased by local natives. He ends up cornered…

  • Review of “Red Mars”

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    Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is the first book in The Mars Trilogy. It opens with a celebration that is all about the progress being made to turn Mars into an actual habitable planet. The celebration quickly goes downhill when one of the original settlers is attacked and killed. It then jumps back to…