Martians, The
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. A modern-day classic of the genre, this epic saga deftly portrays the human stories behind Earth's most ambitious project yet: the terraforming of Mars.Now, following the publication of his acclaimed adventure novel, Antarctica, Robinson returns to the realm he has made his own, in a work that brilliantly weaves together a futuristic setting with a poetic vision of the human spirit engaged in a drama as ancient as mankind itself.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 men and women who are bound together by their experiences on Mars and with each other.Among them are Michel, a French psychologist dazzled by the beauty around him; Maya, a woman whose ill-fated love affairs lead to her first voyage to Mars; and Roger, a tall Martian-born guide who lacks social skills but has the courage to survive on the planet's dangerous yet strangely compelling surface.Beginning with the First Hundred explorers, generations of friends, enemies, and lovers are swept up in the drama that is Earth's tenuous toehold on Mars. International exploration turns into world building; world building degenerates into political conflict, revolution, and war.Following the strands of these lives and events, in an age when human life has been extended for decades, The Martians becomes the story of generations lived on the edge of the ultimate frontier, in a landscape of constant man-made and natural transformation.This new masterpiece by Kim Stanley Robinson is a story of hope and disappointment, of fierce physical and psychological struggles. Both deeply human and scientifically cutting edge, The Martians is the epic chronicle of a planet that represents one of humanity's most glorious possibilities.A Letter from Kim Stanley Robinson:"When I finished Blue Mars, I realized I wasn't done with Mars yet. There were things I still wanted to say about the place, and about my characters from the trilogy, and there were a number of sidebar stories and characters that had found no place in the trilogy's structure. I also had a couple of precursor Mars stories that did not fit the trilogy's history--'Exploring Fossil Canyon' and 'Green Mars'--and I had held these out of my earlier story collections thinking they belonged with the Mars group."So all this material was there, and as I wrote Antarctica, I found myself drawn back into the matter of Mars repeatedly, by the discovery of possible life in meteorite AHL8004 and by the Pathfinder landing. I decided to make a collection of Martian tales, and as I put them in roughly chronological order, I saw that they seemed to be adding up to their own larger story, functioning as the trilogy's 'unconscious' or 'secret history'. Using all kinds of modes, from folk tales to scientific articles, from personal accounts to the full text of a constitution, I arranged things so that the book altogether tells the story of an underground and hard-to-see resistance to the terraforming described in the trilogy proper. I had a great time doing these stories, and hope they add up to my own version of a Martian Chronicles."From the...
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The Martians
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LONDON: VOYAGER (HARPERCOLLINS). Companion volume to Robinson's Mars Trilogy(Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars). Features previously unpublished short stories and novellas featuring characters who appeared in the Mars series plus other material. Page edges are tanned. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Dust jacket price is unclipped. Small tear(1cm approx) on bottom Back edge of DJ. Slight wear on DJ… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Harper Collins, 1999. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Very Good dust jacket,. Peter Elsen. London: Harper Collins:, 1999. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Very Good dust jacket, 400 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Peter Elsen "New novellas and short stories head the collection featuring many of the trilogy's central characters in events previously only hinted at in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0553801171 . HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover is clean and unmarked other than light soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has very light edgewear and a little wrinkling around edges, scuffing of cover, not clipped. ; 8vo; 336 pages; Robinson's Mars trilogy… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Bantam Books / Spectra, 1999. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Robinson on the title page. A collection of stories and poems by Robinson. The half-page has two long light production creases and light bump to the lower corner of the rear cover. Near fine in fine dust jacket.
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London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is scuffed and edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are slightly bumped, and page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear, boards are clean and binding is sound. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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U.S.A.: Voyager, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1ST. An Excellent Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
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SIGNED. First Edition. First Printing. Spectra (1999). Fine, as new, unread hardcover with fine, as new, jacket in new, removable mylar sleeve. Signed (signature only) by Robinson directly to title page. NOT a remainder. Essential prequel- including novellas and short stories - to Robinson's MARS trilogy. A superb copy. Boxed for safe shipping.12-b Item Price
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New York: Bantam Books / Spectra, 1999. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Robinson on the half-title page. A collection of stories and poems by Robinson. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing.
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U.S.A.: Bantam Spectra Books, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1ST. An Excellent Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped.… Read more about this item Item Price
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