Blue Mars

An independent Mars but not a peaceful one, Blue Mars, blue skies, a great stormy, huge Martian North Sea of the same color turning salty, fish swimming below, birds flying above animals roaming around the land, majestic trees growing on beautiful lush hills, sparkling rivers gently flowing by, magn......more

This book is the hardest to rate of all three in the trilogy. Why? Because it's also the best in the trilogy. Let's start at the beginning: The final volume picks up shortly after the end of the second. There is another revolution, this one slightly more successful thanks to Earth being flooded with......more

The first two novels in the Mars trilogy were pretty much a tight mix of colonization, politics, SO MUCH GREAT SCIENCE, and fairly interesting characterizations pretty much designed to carry the sprawling expanse of what MARS is more than anything else. Let's put it this way, and careful, because her......more

[SPOILERS POSSIBLE BELOW, however, if you have come this far in Robinson's Mars Trilogy, there is little here that is really all that surprising.] So, I suppose I can be a bit more open and explicit about my likes and dislikes of the Mars Trilogy now that I finished Blue Mars. Likes: Science Geekout -......more

Ambitious and flawed, but still very special The lengthy time it took me to finish this lengthy final volume in the monumental Mars Trilogy was mostly due to the fact that my reading schedule has been severely truncated lately. However, I will also say that this was the weakest of the three books in......more