The Mars trilogy is a work by Kim Stanley Robinson, often considered to be Robinson's magnum opus and his most well-known work. Robinson also wrote a companion volume composed of short stories and essays often taking place in the same universe, The Martians.
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The following is a list of notable characters appearing in the Mars trilogy, in the order of appearance.
The First Hundred
For the First Hundred, see their main page.
List of Martian settlements and cities in the Mars trilogy, in order of appearance.
See also:
List of groups, organizations and political parties that appear in the Mars trilogy.
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Areophany: ideological esoteric movement worshipping life.
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Biotique: Praxis affiliate specialized in biological engineering that grew to a separate political party. Represented at the Pavonis constitutional congress. Sax Russell worked in it as Stephen Lindholm.
The Mars trilogy timeline lists the events of the future history of the Mars trilogy. It is mostly focused on Martian history, but does include references to important events taking place elsewhere.
The timeline is not partial to the main characters of the trilogy but instead attempts to describe events relevant to the history of the human and the Martian civilization. For history as seen it was felt from the main characters, see the characters' individual pages and the books' summaries.
Each volume takes up the following share of the timeline:
Glossary of terms and concepts used in the Mars trilogy.
For a list of groups, organizations and political parties see here.
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Accelerando: the new renaissance at the end of the 22nd century.
Aerobraking: a manoeuvre to decelerate spacecraft when they enter a planetary body's orbit by flying the craft in close proximity of the planet's atmosphere. The resulting air friction reduces the craft's speed. "Aero-" is Greek for air.
The Second Martian Revolution happened in 2127, simultaneously with the Great Flood on Terra. With this global revolution, Mars successfully acquired independence from Terra.
The causes and the preparation
Since none of the issues that caused the First Martian Revolution had been resolved, the Second Revolution had similar causes.
The Pavonis Mons Congress was held following the success of the Second Martian Revolution as a result of Mars's newly acquired independence. It resulted in the creation of a Martian government and the drafting of a constitution for Mars, for which the work done at the Dorsa Brevia Conference of the underground was an important starting base. The constitution was put to vote on February 27, 2128, local year M-52, and passed with 78%; 95% of the voting Martian population participated to the vote.
The following participated in the congress:
The First Martian Revolution happened in 2061, simultaneously with World War Three on Terra.
The causes
The conference of the Martian underground was held in Dorsa Brevia in circa 2107 (local year M-40). The idea of a conference was initiated by Art Randolph and spread by Art and Nirgal over the underground. The conference was organized by the Swiss from Overhangs. During the conference, Nadia Cherneshevsky realized she had important negotiating skills, Sax Russell and Ann Clayborne once again debated over terraforming and Praxis founder William Fort and other Praxis leaders came to visit from Terra.
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