Lukas

Almost everything I loathed about the movie is done right in the book. It made me smile, made me cry and also made me mad about human stupidity. But overall it's a great statement about human ingenuity and spirit, we are unaware most of the time. Simply said, Carl Sagan is genius.

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It's fascinating how little has changed in two thousand years since Marcus Aurelius was himself alive. There are more quotes I'll remember but this one particularly will stay with me for a long time.

“Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?”

It took me many years to force myself to read the Mars Trilogy and I don't regret a minute now. Even though I haven't give any book the full 5/5 rating, the trilogy (including “The Martians” short stories) as a whole deserves it. It's one huge continuous story spanning two centuries after all.

Kim Stanley Robinson spends a lot of time describing the different changing landscapes of Mars before, during and even after the terraforming process that can bore you a little during the first book but it gets to a point in Blue Mars and The Martians (which I've read alongside the final chapters of Blue Mars) when you feel you are on Mars yourself. Or at least you want to be. Because you want to be sitting next to Valles Marineris rim and watch sunlight shine from below, spent weeks climbing the enormous Olympus Mons, live in Odessa on the rim of the Hellas See and take a boat trip through the The Grand Canal.

But as much time as he spends with world building, Robinson spends with the characters and their struggle to make Mars and it's society better. It can be a little idealistic in some aspects and therefore less realistic but so is the terraformation of Mars in 200 year time itself. I fell in love with many characters, hated some and couldn't stand one particular French...

All in all the Mars Trilogy will be one of my favorite book experiences and one of those you never want to finish. I regret only one thing: that I'll never be able to visit Mars myself.

P.S.: Thank you KSR, I consider myself an expert in Martian geography now.

It has some interesting ideas on familiar things about multiverse theory, but the story was really predictable. First one third was painful to get through, since the reader is always one step in front of the main character.

Also, author writes in very short sentences. Like really short. Sentences. Yes, he does. Like this.