Paperback, 672 pages

English language

Published June 24, 2001 by Trafalgar Square.

ISBN:
978-0-00-711590-7
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4 stars (19 reviews)

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Ultimately disappointing

3 stars

I really liked the first half of the book or so. The environment was cool. The science felt really well researched - which is not a surprise given Robinson's scientific chops. The characters really felt different from one another, and their backstories helped flesh them out, as well as avoid the necessary exposition sound like an info dump. Especially the first chapters of Frank, Maya, and Nadia brought very different perspectives and made me connect with the main characters.

Unfortunately, from the Michel chapter - which to me, with no qualification in the field whatsoever, sounded like plain drivel - the book takes a nosedive. John's chapter is just mindless wandering, and any sense of urgency evaporates right there and then thanks to huge McGuffin. In Frank's chapter, the big question mark from his first chapter gets basically completely ignored, and while the pacing picks up, the storyline takes a …

Review of 'Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Red Mars is well-written, hard science fiction. Unfortunately, it lacks story and plot. I found myself struggling to get through this book, and I only did so because I was hoping for some redeeming quality that would prove to me why this won BSFA and Nebula awards. In the end, I couldn't find the redeeming quality.

I can only assume the author had a collection of notes he had made concerning what terraforming Mars might look like, and he wanted to turn it into a novel, but he couldn't come up with a cohesive, coherent story to make it work, so he pieced it together using vignettes from the lives of the First Hundred people to colonize the planet.

There are many details made to seem important but which never come to bear on any aspect of the action, and then there are details glossed over and mentioned in passing …

Review of 'Marte Rojo' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Un suplicio de leer. Si tuviese que resumirlo en una frase, sería: una historia que no da para un relato corto, narrado en ciento cincuenta millones de páginas.

El 85% del libro es como intentar narrar una postal. Pasadas miles de páginas de esa narración plana, de detalles que no aportan nada a la historia, parecería llegar la parte en la que el editor le dice al autor, "oye, que también tienes que contar una historia". Y ahí empieza la carrera sin sentido por contar algo. Queda hasta abarrotada.

Queda la pena de que la historia prometía bastante, pero no como para pasar por el mismo suplicio otros dos tomos.

Review of 'Marte Rojo' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Primero de la trilogía sobre la futura terraformación de marte. Ciencia ficción 'dura', enfocando la gigantesca empresa de modificar la ecología de un planeta desde diversas disciplinas: ecología, sociología, política, economía... A la altura de los grandes.

Review of 'Marte Rojo' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Tengo que reconocer que a mi no me ha decepcionado en absoluto. Cuando leí por ahi que era mejor que Cronicas Marcianas, enseguida supe que iba a ser un truño. Y sinceramente, en ese aspecto no me ha decepcionado.

La historia es lo de menos, ya que se pierde entre tanta descripcion. Aunque a veces dejaba ver parte de esa historia.

Mencion aparte, los personajes. La novela habla de los Cien Primeros: cien cientificos, mentes brillantes y una presentadora de television, que viajan a Marte como parte de la mision de hacer del planeta rojo un lugar habitable y confortable para la futura colonizacion. La verdad es que. de esos “cien” solo conocemos a un pequeño grupo (que son los que se podria considerar como mas relevantes:: Frank, Maya, John. Ann, Hiroko, Arkadi, Nadia (puede que haya alguien mas). Pero ni siquiera a este grupito es interesante por que no …

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