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SF-LIT November 1997

Subject:

Re: Mars: Red, Green and Blue

From:

"Haworth, Barry" <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:39:18 +1100

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To put in my two cents worth, I quite enjoyed the novels.  Robinson
manages to write a complex and engrossing story that spans three long
books and about two hundred years, and covers the history of a solar
system - Mars is the focus, but the view widens out, especially in the
last book.  He manages to believably cover a long period of time against
a setting that is always changing and developing, so that I could
believe that the terraformed in Blue is the same planet as in Red,
though almost everything about it is different.

That said, the books ramble about quite a bit, especially the last.
While in Red the story of Mars is the story of a few key people, in Blue
the planet has developed so that no one person can see the whole story.
There is a lot of detail (and characters) that doesn't seem to go
anywhere much, though it is enjoyable enough to read - when I got to the
end of Blue I was strongly tempted to pick up Red again and start over
(though I resisted the temptation).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Ebbe [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, 7 November 1997 9:58
> To:   Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT
> Subject:      Mars: Red, Green and Blue
>
> I'm sure that these books by  Kim Stanley Robinson have been talked
> about at
> some point in the past and I missed it, but I shall ask again.  A
> friend of
> mine dropped these off and recommended them.  What do people think?
>
> And if any of you have not read Gun with Occassional Music by Lechum
> (or
> something like that) you've got to pick it up!  Its been a while since
> I
> found a book that I just read from cover to cover in 1 day (ok, it
> wasn't all
> that long) and ignored everything else (like work...).
>
> Bob Ebbe

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