#green mars

[aseaofquotes]

Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

[seamusquigley]

"Some people like to tell others what to do. They like that more than freedom. Hierarchy, you know. And their place in the hierarchy. As long as it’s high enough. Everyone bound into their places. It’s safer than freedom. And a lot of people are cowards."

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

[theladyfromplanetx]

The many covers of The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[pillsburycatboy]

Helmet-bonking Martian sex.

[leydhawk]

Quick sketch of my fancast of Luca Marinelli as Michel Duval from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

[bornitereads]

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

The Mars Trilogy Book 2

Reread: Nov - Dec 2022

In this installment we start to dig into the social aspects of Martian living. How the new native generations feel and live, how the old-timers and newer immigrants from Earth are changed by Mars. There is a reflection on how living on a whole new planet is changing people and societies and cultures in ways they haven't seen, or grasped, or even noticed. It's in this book that I feel the trilogy goes into a lot more commentary on our world. It was a always there of course Robinson went in knowing that they would be writing like that. Lots of ideas about Earth and her human systems. And now we come to using the fictional settlement of Mars as mirror to see ourselves in other and new ways.

The story of course isn't that blatant about it. In fact it took me this re-read to really start seeing some things. I do enjoy the story a lot. In addition to all the themes and pointed looks at Earth problems, the story is about the growing pains of Martian society and/or culture. It's about the growing sense of Martian-ness they are experiencing and how they will reach out and take Martian independence from Earth. It's a thoughtful revolution with less explosions and wild killing than most historic revolutions. I think that was the point. It gave me a lot to think about, while also entertaining me.

Info: Bantam Spectra, 1994

[against-a-dark-background]

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson changed my life. I read them all, one after the other in two weeks, when I was about twenty-one, and I became obsessed with Mars. Reading Robinson’s Mars Trilogy felt as if he had been to the future and knew exactly what was going to occur. He writes like he is prescient. He is a master science fiction author. I adore his work with a fervour matched only by that of J.G. Ballard and Iain M Banks. Robinson is a god of sci-fi.

I began to research Mars, then NASA started sending rovers to Mars! I was so fucken excited! It gave me hope — hope that humans would become an interplanetary species. It is our only way of survival.

 65 million years ago, in the “KT Extinction Event”, an asteroid the size of Texas wiped out 75% of life on Earth. We cannot allow that to happen again. 

SpaceX is currently preparing us for the colonisation of Mars. When this is made permanent, it will truly mean we are safer in our banal corner of an ordinary spiral galaxy, amongst trillions of other galaxies that may be far more interesting than The Milky Way. We still do not know just how interesting our own galaxy is. We currently are a Type 0 Civilisation. Until we become a Type I Civilisation, I doubt we are going to find out about the neighbours!

Now, to The Years of Rice and Salt. This is not science-fiction in its truest form. It is an alternate history, where Europeans are almost totally wiped out by The Plague, then overrun by Genghis Khan, who kills the rest of the Europeans, thus never allowing the white race its non-fictional historical dominance. I really recommend it. It’s so compelling, I finished it in two days. It’s that good. I’ve read it four times.

[dixie--flatline]

man, i have so many Red Mars feels right now (almost finished Green Mars) and like, only one person to talk to about it but i can’t yet because he doesn’t want to risk any spoilers so i have finish the trilogy before i can actually fully talk about it. But mostly I just wanna talk about how much I miss Frank and how I’ve retroactively developed love for him. Like, I defs liked him as I was reading RM but my love was all for Nadia and Arkady but like, Maya and the other 100 continually bringing him up really be hittin me in the feel goods. He was such a tempestuous bastard but i know deep in my heart if i met a guy like that i’d probs be lowkeyhighkey into him. it’s awful.

also i REALLY dont like Jackie. God she’s so... yuck. She’s that girl that HAS TO be the center of attention to every man in the room because of the powertrip it gives her. All she really has is being related to John and Hiroko, and Kasei. At least Maya was a good fucking leader. I don’t like how the two are constantly compared, like, nah bruh, Jackie WISHES she were on Maya’s level.

i have too many feelings.