--- product_id: 8580389 title: "Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)" price: "€ 50.07" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/8580389-blue-mars-mars-trilogy store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) **Price:** € 50.07 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) - **How much does it cost?** € 50.07 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/8580389-blue-mars-mars-trilogy) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic trilogy concludes with Blue Mars —a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling. “A breakthrough even from [Kim Stanley Robinson’s] own consistently high levels of achievement.” — The New York Times Book Review The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion—or interplanetary war. Review: "Well, here we are." After almost 20 years, Blue Mars inspires as much today as it did the day it was published. - Its common to hear that science-fiction is a genre of ideas, and Blue Mars is no exception. Bear in mind, this means there is a lot of exposition, but Robinson makes it organic and engaging. I don't know the reason why this book is the least-well-received of the Mars Trilogy, since not only do I consider it a great work of science-fiction but also a great novel in its own right. Robinson's style is in some ways comparable to Hemingway, and because of that the story is both easily comprehensible and possesses a complexity that goes grossly under-examined. I was awed by Robinson's scope, moved by the struggles and triumphs of characters I've been with throughout the series, and consider it the best addition of the trilogy. Almost 20 years since first being published, I can say that in 2015 this book not only holds up, but continues to be the baseline against which future additions to the body of science-fiction should be measured. I'd say it should be read in schools, but at more than 700 pages, it is a beast of a book. If you want an example of how fiction ought to be written, Blue Mars is it. For the shear amount of content present in a single volume, the value of this book alone is beyond compare. Thanks to desertcart, I only paid a few dollars for the entire series, and even less for this particular volume, and it's worth far more than that. I'll probably buy it again in hardcover just to have. I mean think about it, how much are you going to spend on a mass-market paper back, a few bucks? It's totally worth it. I wouldn't even just recommend this book to fans of science-fiction, but to anyone interested in a well-crafted story, complex characters, and an exotic setting that becomes more real as the story progresses. In a genre clogged with thinly veiled, semi-autobiographical, exhausted hero-journeys, this novel - and the series as a whole - sets itself apart from anything encountered in science-fiction today. It truly is "a landmark". Buy it. You will not - will not! - regret it. Review: End of the Era - This is the final installment of the Red Mars series, easily the most engaging novel I've read in twenty years or more. After eading the first one, Red Mars, I wasn't going to stop until I'd read it all. The strength of the series, in its sweeping scope, is its insights into political science as it plays out on an exceptionally large cast of well-developed characters. By means of a device available only to SciFi writers, the characters have access to life-extending DNA modifications which enables them to bear witness to events over the span of a couple of centuries. Some may see this as a contrivance, but this life extension exercise is so plausibly interwoven into the warp and weft of the story strucutre that it didn't bother me at all. Robonson writes really beautifully, with extended (some might say over-extended) landscape descriptions, local and global geography, and what appears to be an encyclopedic knowledge of geology. The physics gets a bit fanciful in the later volumes, much less so early on. Whjat really drives the novel, though, is the conflicts between characters and institutions, both of which continue to change over time. You've got sex. You've got romance. You've got the love of nature, the quest for power, and the reactions of those who don't like it. What more could you want? I would given this five stars but for a few annoying flaws. As the saga goes on, and the author is obviously tiring, you find more errors creeping in: Character names misspelled, plot lines set up and then left unresolved, a character dying and then reappearing with no explanation, small words missing here and there. Evidently the editor(s) got as tired as the author. Still, on balance, a good read, if not quite as exciting and engaging as Red Mars. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #495,578 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #162 in Hard Science Fiction (Books) #724 in Science Fiction Adventures #5,186 in Space Operas | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,899 Reviews | ## Images ![Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Q1stgykFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Well, here we are." After almost 20 years, Blue Mars inspires as much today as it did the day it was published. *by B***K on June 13, 2015* Its common to hear that science-fiction is a genre of ideas, and Blue Mars is no exception. Bear in mind, this means there is a lot of exposition, but Robinson makes it organic and engaging. I don't know the reason why this book is the least-well-received of the Mars Trilogy, since not only do I consider it a great work of science-fiction but also a great novel in its own right. Robinson's style is in some ways comparable to Hemingway, and because of that the story is both easily comprehensible and possesses a complexity that goes grossly under-examined. I was awed by Robinson's scope, moved by the struggles and triumphs of characters I've been with throughout the series, and consider it the best addition of the trilogy. Almost 20 years since first being published, I can say that in 2015 this book not only holds up, but continues to be the baseline against which future additions to the body of science-fiction should be measured. I'd say it should be read in schools, but at more than 700 pages, it is a beast of a book. If you want an example of how fiction ought to be written, Blue Mars is it. For the shear amount of content present in a single volume, the value of this book alone is beyond compare. Thanks to Amazon, I only paid a few dollars for the entire series, and even less for this particular volume, and it's worth far more than that. I'll probably buy it again in hardcover just to have. I mean think about it, how much are you going to spend on a mass-market paper back, a few bucks? It's totally worth it. I wouldn't even just recommend this book to fans of science-fiction, but to anyone interested in a well-crafted story, complex characters, and an exotic setting that becomes more real as the story progresses. In a genre clogged with thinly veiled, semi-autobiographical, exhausted hero-journeys, this novel - and the series as a whole - sets itself apart from anything encountered in science-fiction today. It truly is "a landmark". Buy it. You will not - will not! - regret it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ End of the Era *by R***D on March 25, 2013* This is the final installment of the Red Mars series, easily the most engaging novel I've read in twenty years or more. After eading the first one, Red Mars, I wasn't going to stop until I'd read it all. The strength of the series, in its sweeping scope, is its insights into political science as it plays out on an exceptionally large cast of well-developed characters. By means of a device available only to SciFi writers, the characters have access to life-extending DNA modifications which enables them to bear witness to events over the span of a couple of centuries. Some may see this as a contrivance, but this life extension exercise is so plausibly interwoven into the warp and weft of the story strucutre that it didn't bother me at all. Robonson writes really beautifully, with extended (some might say over-extended) landscape descriptions, local and global geography, and what appears to be an encyclopedic knowledge of geology. The physics gets a bit fanciful in the later volumes, much less so early on. Whjat really drives the novel, though, is the conflicts between characters and institutions, both of which continue to change over time. You've got sex. You've got romance. You've got the love of nature, the quest for power, and the reactions of those who don't like it. What more could you want? I would given this five stars but for a few annoying flaws. As the saga goes on, and the author is obviously tiring, you find more errors creeping in: Character names misspelled, plot lines set up and then left unresolved, a character dying and then reappearing with no explanation, small words missing here and there. Evidently the editor(s) got as tired as the author. Still, on balance, a good read, if not quite as exciting and engaging as Red Mars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Red, Green, Blue Mars *by O***S on September 14, 2023* I wsh that I had read these the thirty or so years ago when they first came out. They are brilliant. Robinson is a complicated author and his books are, for me anyway, difficult at times to read. Long, long passages of description, or explanations, which I (shamefully admit) often just skim. But the ideas, the concepts, the characters he creates are captivating. He is a brilliant, well educated man and writes with an expectation that his reader is just as brilliant and well educated. I am not, but I appreciate the sentiment and do my best to keep up. Robinson's future is an amazing place, one that we could reach. But he makes it clear; our problem is not just merely technological, it is cultural as well. I can SEE his future, and know that what limits us is our cowardice and our greed. I was often frustrated, I wanted to know more about what was going on outside of Mars. It seemed like nothing was being done to solve Earth's problems on Earth. It seemed as if the Martians had Iittle clue as to things going on elsewhere. There were loose ends, unanswered questions, but that's ok. That's how life is. Enough is as good as a feast. 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