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My general feelings for this book can be summed up as UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

October 27, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I think I am allergic to Kim Stanley Robinson. Loved the idea behind this book, extremely disliked the execution. I tried reading 2312 years back, and similarly, any cool tingly science feelings I got from that book (which if I’m remembering right, starts with a moving, mechanized city on Mercury) was completely murdered by the boring as hell characters and lack of emotional through-line. I just remember the boredom with that one, but here I was not only bored but frustrated and annoyed by KSR’s attempt […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi

narfna's CBR13 Review No:153 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi ·
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Mars was empty before we came.

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

May 5, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this is the first novel in a series of three novels and a collection of short stories. The novels get progressively longer and this one already clocks in at 575 pages. So all told the series comprises about 2000 pages. The novel is an expansive granular-level investigation into a Mars colonization project which would start this current decade and one of the central figures of the project is my age — I mean literally — in that he was born in 1982 (I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: kim stanley robinson, red mars

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:244 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: kim stanley robinson, red mars ·
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Felt Like the Sam-Frodo part of The Two Towers But On Mars: Or, It’s a Rock, I Get It, Can We Get to Someone or Something Interesting?

May 28, 2018 by Jen K 4 Comments

I have seen this novel recommended at least two separate threads in the greater Pajiba FB ecosystem so I thought I would check it out.  And I am starting to think that maybe I don’t like sci-fi anymore, because it seems like the last few novels I have read that fit firmly in sci-fi weren’t exactly that great for me (unless we count Red Rising as sci-fi? Because I love those books).  The Three Body Problem started out interesting if dark but each novel was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: colonization, kim stanley robinson, mars trilogy, red mars, space

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: colonization, kim stanley robinson, mars trilogy, red mars, space ·
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