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Informationen zum Autor Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and highly praised ‘Mars’ series. Klappentext The Future History of Mars - Part Two 2020: Mankind lands on Mars 2027: The first colonists arrive 2062: Revolution... The First Hundred - the planet's human pioneers - landed on Mars a generation ago. But now, as humanity's dream of a new world falters in the wake of a failed revolution, those first colonists have scattered or died. The Martian surface is being cultivated and terraformed to suit Man's needs - frozen lakes are forming, lichen is growing, the atmosphere is slowly becoming breathable. And Earth's transnational corporations have realized that Mars can be owned, and set about plundering the planet for profit. Below ground, the first generation of children born on Mars are among the rebels in hiding. They will be joined by the survivors of the original settlers - Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier and Sax Russell - as they attempt to wrest control for Mars's future from the grip of the corporations. But do they want bloody revolution or peaceful co-existence? The fight for the soul of a planet is only just beginning... 'A mighty trilogy... forecasting every detail and facet, triumph and tragedy, crucial breakthroughs and trivialities of humanity's colonization of another world' Daily Mail 'One of the finest works of American SF' Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung The second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ‘The ultimate in future history’ Daily Mail...
