Description
Product ID: | 9780007310166 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Red Mars |
Authors: | Author: Kim Stanley Robinson |
Page Count: | 672 |
Subjects: | Science fiction, Science fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily MailMars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis.It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing… for civilization can be very uncivilized. |
Imprint Name: | HarperVoyager |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-08-06 |