He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.

In 2008 he was named one of Time magazines Heroes of the Environment. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileos Dream. a high-water mark in novels of Earth emigration.-The Washington Post Book World About the Author Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. a scientifically informed imagination of rare ambition at work.-The New York Times Book Review Tremendous. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. In the present article, the focus is on the utopian content of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars(1993), the first book of an ambitious trilogy that portrays the colonization of this planet1. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. Red Mars won the Nebula award in 1993, and Green. Clarke For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. I just finished reading these books (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) and cant recommend them too highly. the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.-Arthur C. Book Synopsis Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel - Discover the novel that launched one of science fictions most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinsons masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization. About the Book In the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to attempt to conquer the barren, desolate landscape of Mars.

The red mars trilogy