Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earth-like planet has just begun. In Green Mars the colonists will attempt to turn the red planet into a lush garden for humanity. They will bombard the atmosphere with ice meteorites to add moisture. They will seed the red deserts with genetically engineered plants. Then they will tap the boiling planetary core to warm the planet's frozen surface. But their heroic efforts don't go unchallenged. For their plan to transform Mars is opposed by those determined to preserve the hostile and barren beauty of Mars. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars, and they will be joined in their violent struggle by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships will explode in a story as big as the planet itself. A novel of breathtaking scope and imagination, of lyric intensity and social resonance, Kim Stanley Robinson employs years of research and state-of-the-art science to create a prophetic vision of where humanity is headed - and of what life will be like on another world.

Udgivet af Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1905

Kim Stanley Robinson
Amerikansk SF forfatter som fik trykt sin første novelle I 1975 og sin første roman I 1984. Dette var "The Wild Shore" den første af Robinson's tre bøger om Orange County I Kalifornien. Senere fuldte "The Gold Coast" og "Pacific Edge." Med årene blev Robinson et af de bedste navne I branchen og han har hang til at skrive om steder han har besøgt, se f.eks. bøgerne "Escape from Kathmandu" og "Antarctica." Men Robinson's indtil nu største triumf er hans trilogi om kolonisering; "Red Mars", "Green Mars" og "Blue Mars". Bøgerne vandt Hugo og Nebula priser. Senere er kommet "The Martians" nogle noveller med personerne fra Mars trilogien. Robinson's nyeste bøger omfatter "The Year's of Salt and Rice" og "Forty Signs of Rain"