Steel Beach
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Read Time: ~9.9 hr
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)
About this book
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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