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Red Mars author Kim Stanley Robinson names his 10 favorite Mars novels as part of a special Mars issue in the IEEE Spectrum. He charts the evolution of our understanding of the red planet, and the literature of colonization. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5279068&view=rss&microfeed=true Kim Stanley Robinson's classic Martian colonization novel Red Mars is available for download as a free PDF, and also available for the Amazon Kindle. The bad news is, you'll have to buy the other two books in the Mars trilogy yourself. More »
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While real scientists prepare to listen to the sounds of Mars, AMC is getting ready to let us watch the Red Planet as well... or at least, a fictionalized future version of it, courtesy of a new television version of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5058927&view=rss&microfeed=true Over on BLDG BLOG there's a fantastic interview with scifi writer/environmental futurist Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Red Mars trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, and the Three Californias trilogy. He geeks out about Antarctica (where he's lived), the decay of Earth's environment, and what civilization might look like on a cold, red planet. Comparative Planetology with Kim Stanley Robinson [BLDG BLOG] More »
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