Blue Mars
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| "Blue Mars" | |||||||
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| Part of the Mars trilogy | |||||||
| A novel by Kim Stanley Robinson | |||||||
 Cover of the 1996 Bantam edition | |||||||
| First published | 1993 | ||||||
| Pages | 762 (Bantam 1996 paperback) | ||||||
| ISBN # | 978-0553573350 | ||||||
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Blue Mars is the third novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1996. The scope expands greatly compared to the first two volumes, both in space and time; it follows the changes of the Martian society throughout the 22nd century, the completion of the terraforming of Mars and the colonization of the solar system.
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2127 Battle for Sheffield and the cable
early 2128 Constitutional congress
late 2128 Ambassadors' trip to Earth
2128-2134 Nadia's presidency
2129 Zo Boone born
2134-2144 Nirgal on Tyrrhena Massif
2155 Sax meets Ann on Da Vinci
2160s Introduction of pulsed fusion space travel
2171 Nirgal's run with the ferals
2180 Zo and Ann visit Jovian and Uranian systems
2181 Grand Canal election campaign
2190s Beginning of illegal immigration from Earth
2206 Death of Michel
2211 Underhill reunion
2212 Sax and Ann sailing trip, cable crisis, third revolution
[edit] Summary
[edit] Peacock Mountain
Point of view: Ann
[edit] Areophany
Point of view: Sax
[edit] A New Constitution
Point of view: Art
[edit] Green Earth
Point of view: Nirgal
[edit] Home At Last
Point of view: Michel
[edit] Ann In The Outback
Point of view: Ann
[edit] Making Things Work
Point of view: Nadia
[edit] The Green And The White
Point of view: Nirgal
[edit] Natural History
Point of view: Sax
[edit] Werteswandel
Point of view: Nirgal
[edit] Viriditas
Point of view: Zo
[edit] It Goes So Fast
Point of view: Maya
[edit] Experimental Procedures
Point of view: Sax
[edit] Phoenix Lake
Point of view: Ann
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[edit] Themes
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[edit] Quotes
- "Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before." (p.80, Areophany)
- The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. (p.100, Areophany)
- [Zo:] "You’ve located intrinsic worth in the wrong place," she said to all of them. "It’s like a rainbow. Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. Without mind there is no intrinsic worth." (pp.435-436, Viriditas).
[edit] Resources
- Reviews at KimStanleyRobinson.info
- Blue Mars at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Blue Mars at Google Books
| The Mars trilogy | ||
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| Characters | Principal: John Boone · Frank Chalmers · Nadia Cherneshevsky · Ann Clayborne · Michel Duval · Nirgal · Art Randolph · Sax Russell · Maya Toitovna · Zo
Supporting: Hiroko Ai · Arkady Bogdanov · Peter Clayborne · Desmond "Coyote" Hawkins · Jackie · Kasei | 
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| Places | Stellar bodies: Terra · Mars (Phobos, Deimos, Clarke) · Solar system
Martian settlements: Underhill · Burroughs · Sheffield · Sabishii · Zygote · Dorsa Brevia · Odessa · Da Vinci | |
| Groups | First Hundred · Areophany · UNOMA/UNTA · Reds (Kakaze, Marsfirst) · Greens · Free Mars · Praxis · The underground | |
| Events | Timeline · 1st Revolution · Dorsa Brevia Conference · 2nd Revolution · Pavonis Mons Congress · 3rd Revolution | |
| Concepts | Glossary · Terraforming · Areoformation · Space elevator · Longevity treatment · Eco-economics · Ecopoesis | |
| Red Mars · Green Mars · Blue Mars · The Martians | ||
