Science Fiction · HopefulA century after the second revolution, Mars adopts a new constitution while Earth floods and the solar system opens up
Blue Mars
The last book of the Mars trilogy, a century on
Blue Mars was published in 1996 as the third book of the Mars trilogy, after Red Mars and Green Mars. It follows directly after Green Mars and covers a century after the second revolution. Earth is flooded by melting Antarctic ice, and Mars builds asteroid cities and colonizes the solar system. A new constitution is adopted, and the longevity treatments begin to fail after about two centuries.
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Who
Nadia Cherneshevsky, Art Randolph, Ann Clayborne, Sax Russell, Maya Toitovna, Nirgal and Jackie Boone.
World
Mars and the wider solar system over a century after the second revolution.
What makes it different
It won the Hugo and the Locus Award in 1997. It completes the trilogy after Red Mars and Green Mars.
Feel
Spacious and thoughtful.
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Further reading
- Blue MarsWikipedia