Blue Mars

Blue Mars
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Publisher : Spectra
Total Pages : 862
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780553898293
ISBN-13 : 0553898299
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Blue Mars by : Kim Stanley Robinson

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.

The Martians

The Martians
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Publisher : Spectra
Total Pages : 448
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780553898309
ISBN-13 : 0553898302
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Martians by : Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is one of science fiction’s most honored stories, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. Now Robinson returns to the realm he has made his own—the planet Mars—in a brilliantly imagined drama with a searing poetic vision. From a training mission in Antarctica to blistering sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the interwoven stories of The Martians set in motion a sprawling cast of characters upon the surface of Mars. As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet the First Hundred explorers—men and women who are bound together by Earth’s tenuous toehold on Mars. Presenting unforgettable stories of hope and disappointment, of fierce physical and psychological struggles, The Martians is an epic chronicle of a planet that represents one of humanity’s most glorious possibilities. Praise for The Martians “A uniquely rewarding experience of state-of-the-art science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “No one familiar with Robinson’s trilogy can read through these final, valedictory stories without feeling moved.”—The Washington Post “The stories are beautifully written, the characters are well developed and the author’s passion for ecology manifests itself on every page.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Red Planet Blues

Red Planet Blues
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 347
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101622216
ISBN-13 : 1101622210
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Planet Blues by : Robert J. Sawyer

Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award–nominated novella “Identity Theft” The name’s Lomax—Alex Lomax. I’m the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. I’m trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers—lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I’ll dig up...

Icehenge

Icehenge
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312866097
ISBN-13 : 9780312866099
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Icehenge by : Kim Stanley Robinson

Robinson's astonishing Mars sequence--"Red Mars, Green Mars", and "Blue Mars"--won the Nebula Award for the first volume and Hugos for the second and third. Clarke), "Icehenge" is the Robinson's first novel set on Mars.

Fifty Degrees Below

Fifty Degrees Below
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Publisher : Spectra
Total Pages : 418
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780553902075
ISBN-13 : 0553902075
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Fifty Degrees Below by : Kim Stanley Robinson

Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming. When the storm got bad, Frank Vanderwal was in his office at the National Science Foundation. When it was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater. Everything Frank and his colleagues feared had culminated in this disaster. And now the world was looking to them to fix it. But even as D.C. bails itself out, a more extreme climate change looms. The melting polar ice caps are shutting down the warm Gulf Stream waters—meaning Ice Age conditions could return. And the last time that happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.…

Forty Signs of Rain

Forty Signs of Rain
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Publisher : Spectra
Total Pages : 434
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780553585803
ISBN-13 : 0553585800
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Forty Signs of Rain by : Kim Stanley Robinson

The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of technology, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm.

Earth and Mars

Earth and Mars
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 181
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780816500383
ISBN-13 : 081650038X
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Earth and Mars by : Stephen E. Strom

"Earth and Mars relates in images and words the life story of two planets: both born in the dusty disk surrounding the young sun; each shaped by volcanic activity, wind, and water; but only one home to life"--Provided by publisher.

Blue Mars

Blue Mars
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780553573350
ISBN-13 : 0553573357
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Blue Mars by : Kim Stanley Robinson

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.

A Fighting Man of Mars

A Fighting Man of Mars
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Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Total Pages : 235
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783986473037
ISBN-13 : 3986473033
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis A Fighting Man of Mars by : Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Fighting Man of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Fighting Man of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it on February 28, 1929, and the finished story was first published in The Blue Book Magazine as a six-part serial in the issues for April to September 1930. It was later published as a complete novel by Metropolitan in May 1931.A Fighting Man of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it on February 28, 1929, and the finished story was first published in The Blue Book Magazine as a six-part serial in the issues for April to September 1930. It was later published as a complete novel by Metropolitan in May 1931.

Life on Mars

Life on Mars
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 33
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780399538520
ISBN-13 : 0399538526
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Life on Mars by : Jon Agee

In this sneaky, silly picture book for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen, an intrepid—but not so clever—space explorer is certain he’s found the only living thing on Mars A young astronaut is absolutely sure there is life to be found on Mars. He sets off on a solitary mission, determined to prove the naysayers wrong. But when he arrives, equipped with a package of cupcakes as a gift, he sees nothing but a nearly barren planet. Finally, he spies a single flower and packs it away to take back to Earth as proof that there is indeed life on Mars. But as he settles in for the journey home, he cracks open his cupcakes—only to discover that someone has eaten them all! Readers will love being in on the secret: Unbeknownst to the explorer, a Martian has been wandering through the illustrations the whole time—and he got himself a delicious snack along the way.