Nebula Award Best Novel Winner
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Summary
The first volume of Robinson's Mars trilogy follows the first hundred colonists as they establish a foothold on the red planet and begin the long process of terraforming. Tensions soon divide them between those who want to transform Mars for human life and those who wish to preserve it untouched, while Earth's politics and corporations reach across space to claim control. The book combines rigorous science with sweeping questions about ecology, revolution, and how a new society might be built.
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Historical Context & Significance
Red Mars won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and opened a trilogy whose later volumes, Green Mars and Blue Mars, each went on to win the Hugo Award.