Red Mars

Ordinary situations taking place in an extraordinary setting. Put a group of one hundred brilliant scientists in a spaceship heading to colonize a new planet, and what do they do? They fuck like rabbits, they squander and gossip among themselves and they immediately aim to ignore everything they were ordered to do in their mission. The “founding fathers” of this new world are portrayed as teenagers going to college, anxious to rebel against their parents and the norms of society to do as they please.

There is some discussions about Americans trying to impose they're freedom to everybody and the Russians favoring the communism way of living. Also some hints of atheism scientists vs religious fundamentalists.

The scenes are devoid of emotion and these social conflicts are too prosaic or paltry described to bear any interest. They just weren't enough to constitute a meaningful reading experience, unlike 1984 or Brave New World which brought up social conflicts and integrated them into a good novel.

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