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The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). The Martians (1999) is a collection of short stories set in the same fictional universe. Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994.
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the ...
The most prominent work of fiction dealing with the subject of terraforming Mars is the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (consisting of the novels Red Mars from 1992, Green Mars from 1993, and Blue Mars from 1996), [2] [3] [25] a hard science fiction story of a United Nations project wherein 100 carefully selected scientists are sent to ...
Blue Mars. Blue Mars may refer to: Blue Mars (novel), the third book in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Blue Mars (video game), 3D massively multiplayer virtual world platform.
The Mars trilogy. Red Mars (1992) – Colonization. Green Mars (1993) – Terraforming. Blue Mars (1996) – Long-term results. The Martians (1999) – Short stories.
The Mars Trilogy, a series of novels (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson, depicts space elevators on Earth and on Mars, the cables of which are made of carbon nanotubes manufactured on asteroids and lowered into each planet's atmosphere, using the asteroid as a counterweight.
The publication data for the trilogy is incorrect. The books were first published in the UK by MacMillan: Red Mars in Sep 1992, Green Mars in Oct 1993, and Blue Mars in Apr 1996. I also note there's no mention of KSR's novella 'Green Mars' (1985) -- published as half of a Tor double in 1988 (with Arthur C Clarke's 'A Meeting with Medusa').
The Mars trilogy gave Robinson a reputation for quality of writing and a richness of detail comparable to James Michener, [4] as well as winning him a Nebula Award for Red Mars (1993) and two Hugo and Locus Awards for Green Mars (1994) and Blue Mars (1996). [5]