Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel - Soon to be a series on Spike TV One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson's epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars--a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.
The red planet is no more.
Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish.
The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green ``terraformers.
`` Meanwhile, Earth is in peril.
A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet.
With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion--or interplanetary war.
Praise for Blue Mars ``A breakthrough even from Robinson's] own consistently high levels of achievement.
``--The New York Times Book Review ``Exhilarating .
a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity's future.
``--The Philadelphia Inquirer `` Blue Mars] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion.
``--San Francisco Chronicle.