![]() ![]() ![]() However, I didn’t really enjoy this aspect of it, and I couldn’t help but think to myself that Heinlein did it better. This was particularly the case towards the end. There is some focus on the terraforming of the planet, but largely it felt like the major focus was on the political situation between Earth and Mars. The book picks up where the previous one left off, even with many of the same characters. After finishing Green Mars, I felt a lot less confident. I felt rewarded after finishing Red Mars. If you manage, these books are extremely rewarding. If you are going to pick this up, you are going to want to be paying lot of attention to it, and thus don’t even try if you are not willing to give it that. This does not make for good passive bedtime reading. The books are famously dense and difficult, having a whole lot of technical knowledge peppered in. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is an example of a series that has that exact reputation. And partly because the mind just isn’t up to the task at a certain age. ![]() This is partly because life, particularly modern life, is difficult and keeps you from having the kind of time to do such things. I once heard it said that there are some books that if you do not read when you are young, you will probably never read them. ![]()
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