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In his most ambitious project up to now, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge technology in the very first of three novels that'll chronicle the colonization of Mars.For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red earth. For hundreds of years, Mars has beckoned to mankind in the future and conquer its hostile environment. Today, in the entire year 2026, several a hundred colonists is approximately to satisfy that destiny.John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal may be the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will end up a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it provides and chance to strip the earth of its riches.