Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars
Red Mars
Buch
- HarperCollins Publishers, 08/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780007310166
- Bestellnummer: 5023168
- Umfang: 672 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 471 g
- Maße: 197 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 45 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.8.2009
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge sceince in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. for eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life ... and death.
Rezension
"The ultimate in future history" (Daily Mail)Klappentext
The Future History of Mars - Part One1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.
2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.
2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.
It's the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced.
In 2027, the Ares, the biggest space-worthy craft ever built by man, reaches high orbit around Mars. Inside is a crew who will become the first one hundred people to land on the planet's surface.
Among them are the Russian team, led by the magnetic Maya Toitovna and radical socialist Arkady Bogdanov with their pragmatic engineer Nadia Cherneshevsky; Hiroko Ai - a Japanese biologist; and the Americans, led by Boone and the ambitious Frank Chalmers. Their mission: terraform a frozen wasteland with no atmosphere into a new Eden.
Their mission must succeed. The future of human civilization depends on it.