Blue Mars

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Acclaimed visionary author Kim Stanley Robinson is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winner. Blue Mars is the final volume in Robinson's seminal science-fiction trilogy, which began with Red Mars and continues with Green Mars.

The once red and barren terrain of Mars is now green and rich with life - plant, animal, and human. But idyllic Mars is in a state of political upheaval, plagued by violent conflict between those who would keep the planet green and those who want to return it to a desert world.

Meanwhile, across the void of space, old, tired Earth spins on its decaying axis. A natural disaster threatens to drown the already far too polluted and overcrowded planet. The people of Earth are getting desperate. Maybe desperate enough to wage interplanetary war for the chance to begin again.

Blue Mars is a complex and completely enthralling saga - as convincing and lushly imagined a future as anyone has ever dreamed. Richard Ferrone narrates this sweeping epic with engaging personality and finesse.

©1996 Kim Stanley Robinson (P)2002 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

• Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1997

"Robinson's achievement here is on a par with Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Herbert's Dune." (Publishers Weekly)
"A well-written, thoughtful conclusion to the trilogy." (Library Journal)

You read Red and Green finish with Blue

I wanted to see this series to the end, the book is not a short story but does a lot to finish some story lines and give new opportunities to other story lines. The political parts of the books were not my as much my style but I really enjoyed the world building with the trip the book took to earth and the outer planets.

I did up the reading speed on this one, normally I listen at 1x

Great end to trilogy.

A little long winded at times, but overall an enjoyable end to the three book series.

Cat girls make it to Mars for some reason

I overall really enjoyed the story, I don't understand why we needed so much heterosexual pandering in the book. or that section where one of the characters got elective surgery to purr like a cat. Then licks like a cat.

fantastic conclusion to an amazing trilogy

Highly intelligent hard sci fi. A dazzlying and optimistic vision of a potential interplanetary future for humanity. The Mars trilogy was hands down the most enjoyable science fiction I'v ever read.

Masterful

just finished Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. I am in total awe at how incredible his science fiction writing is. His entire series was brilliantly written, throughly researched and outstandingly thought provoking. You’ll ride a wave of emotions as he forces you to ask questions and think deeply about life and death, relationships, the climate, politics, family, science, mathematics and so many other topics. I can’t recommend the Red Mars trilogy enough. Even if you aren’t fascinated by space and science, I promise you’ll laugh, cry, cringe while reading. Blue Mars, however is, in my opinion, the greatest of the three. Incredibly captivating. Very very good.