From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Ack! I really liked the second and third books in that series! Guess we disagree. :) Plus, if Rich is looking for novels about terraforming Mars, the second and third books are much more detailed than the first.
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Subject: Re: Irregulars Question (New), was Re: Book Suggestions: TheBest of Current SciFi?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:22:19 +0100
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> At 02:07 14-2-2003 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> >On another (science-oriented) list, I am having a discussion with a
> >professional geologist who, based on his remarks so far, apparently has
> >not read much hard SF. I could use some suggestions of books which
> >present realistic scenarios for terraforming Mars.
>
> Kim Stanley Robinson's _Mars_ trilogy would be a good read -- if you can
> spare the time to read through some 3,600 pages.
>
Might I add that you best stop reading after the first book of that trilogy.
It becomes a drudge after that.
There was a set of short stories published in a single volume (The Martians?) by KMS a year ago that was very cool as well. Alternate histories, poetry, back stories for certain characters and a short story about the first baseball teams on Mars.)
Jon
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