Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2004/05/28/red-mars-a-very-bela.html
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Nail on the head, exact same problem here! Started it twice I think but lost momentum. KSR is, as you say, cool’n’great though, I must bump it right back up the list.
In fact, I think I’ll put down Reynold’s Blue Remembered Earth right now, it’s not really doing it for me, and switch to Red Mars instead…
Red Mars…is the first volume in a trilogy, each of which depicts a different vision of the [dis|u]topiian establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars.
Sorry Cory, it’s not a “three versions” trilogy like Three Californias, it’s a straight chronological trilogy. It’s still brilliant though! Please read and share your thoughts with us!
ETA: How is this post from 2004 just now trending in the BBS?
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You’re in for a treat, Cory. It gets better. Green Mars also has one of the pithiest descriptions of “free”-market fundies ever written:
“That’s libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
Good catch. @orenwolf : zombie topic.
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