Science Fiction · HopefulFifty years after Red Mars, survivors of the First Hundred hide while resistance groups prepare a second revolution
Green Mars
The second book of the Mars trilogy, with the planet turning green
Spectra published the novel in October 1993, a hardcover of 535 pages. It is the second book of the Mars trilogy, after Red Mars (1992) and before Blue Mars (1996). It is set about 50 years after Red Mars. The First Hundred's underground base collapses, and the survivors go into hiding. Resistance groups prepare a second revolution. Sax Russell, Phyllis Boyle, Maya Toitovna, Hiroko Ai and Arthur Randolph are among the characters.
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Who
Sax Russell, Phyllis Boyle, Maya Toitovna, Hiroko Ai and Arthur Randolph.
World
Mars, about 50 years after Red Mars, while the planet is terraformed.
What makes it different
It won the Hugo and the Locus Award in 1994 and was nominated for the Nebula. Its trilogy is more utopian than dystopian.
Feel
Patient and wide-ranging.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Green MarsWikipedia