Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science
fiction’s most beloved acclaimed and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly
near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization. A staggering book . . . the best novel on
the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke For centuries the
barren desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one
hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more
Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light
onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice.
And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But
despite these ambitious goals there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from
ever being changed.
