InQ Episode 74: "Red Mars"

When you are the first 100 people on Mars, there are a few things
that need to happen. First, you need to get along. That’s a given
(but not as easy as it looks..). You also have to have an
infrastructure that allows you to breath, travel, explore, and,
maybe just live. Also not that easy.. Especially when you have
factions on Earth trying to dictate how THEY want Mars to be,
factions on Mars trying to replicate Earth, those who want Mars
to remain the same, untouched and those who are simply trying to
do their job! Not an easy combination.


Winner of the Hugo and the Nebula Award, Kim Stanley Robinson has
created a very believable Martian colonization scenario from all
perspective. Written in the third narrative but allowing every
major player (and every major field of study) to have its own
chapter, the author manages to present to his reader the various
discoveries, joys, disappointments and road blocks that such a
set of scientist (soon followed by various waves of immigration)
deals with when faced with such a fascinating yet daunting
endeavor.


Kim Stanley Robinson puts the science back in science fiction.


For all you dreamers out there, lets’ go to Mars!