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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is among science-fiction's most honored series, with Reddish Mars earning the known Nebula Award, and equally Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. A contemporary-day classic of the style, this legendary tale deftly shows the human stories behind Planet's most ambitious undertaking yet: the terraforming of Mars.Now, following a publication of his acclaimed adventure book, Antarctica, Robinson returns to the world he's created their own, in a function that brilliantly weaves together a futuristic environment with a lyrical vision of the human nature involved in a crisis as old as humanity itself.From an exercise mission in Antarctica to extreme sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the intertwined stories of The Martians put in place a vast cast of characters upon the Area of Mars. Whilst the planet is changed from an untouched and forbidding landscape to some struggling picture of the re-made World, we meet men and women who are bound together by their activities on Mars and with every other.Among them are Michel, a French psychiatrist stunned by the wonder around him; Maya, a lady whose ill-fated love affairs result in her first journey to Mars; and Roger, a high Martian-delivered manual who lacks interpersonal skills but has got the courage to endure on the planetis risky yet surprisingly persuasive surface.Beginning with the First Hundred people, decades of friends, enemies, and lovers are taken up in the crisis that's Planetis tenuous toehold on Mars. Worldwide pursuit transforms into world building; world building degenerates into political turmoil, innovation, and war.Following the lengths of those lifestyles and activities, within an era when human life hasbeen expanded for many years, The Martians becomes the story of years lived on-the-edge of the best frontier, in a landscape of continuous man made and organic transformation.This new masterpiece by Kim Stanley Robinson is just a story of hope and frustration, of intense physical and mental challenges.