Tag: Space Colonization
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Time to finish the colonization of Mars with Blue Mars, the third and final book in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up shortly after the end of Green Mars we see them navigating the aftermath of the successful revolution. Ann is trying to figure out what it means to still be a…
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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…
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Andy Weir has created an extremely compelling story in his novel Artemis. It tells the story of Jasmine Bashara, a young woman trying to make a living in the one and only lunar colony Artemis. Jazz is a part-time porter and full-time smuggler who is just trying to get rich. Not rich rich but rich…
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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…