Blue Mars
Book by Kim Stanley RobinsonWikipedia
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Oct 11, 2026
speaker_7HOST
This is the absolute apex of hard sci-fi world building.
speaker_2HOST
The trilogy comprises Red Mars in 1992, Green Mars in 1993, and Blue Mars in 1996, and the narrative covers 187 years
speaker_7HOST
A massive timeline
speaker_2HOST
Right, from the arrival of the first colonists in 2026 to the year 2212.
speaker_2HOST
Otherwise, it would just be a disjointed history book
speaker_7HOST
Exactly.
speaker_7HOST
We see them debate the initial atmospheric changes in Red Mars, witness the violent revolutions against Earth's corporate control in Green Mars, and finally grapple with the consequences of an overflowing, fully transformed ocean planet in Blue Mars
speaker_2HOST
We get to watch their ideologies calcify, adapt, or just completely break over the course of centuries
Fernando RizzoHOST
He's-
Shams JorjaniHOST
Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars.
Shams JorjaniHOST
Yeah
Fernando RizzoHOST
... he's got, in addition to the Mars books, he's got a great book that...
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
and they're by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and they're called the Mars Trilogy.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
And they start off, I think, well, obviously it'd be Red Mars, and then Green Mars, and then Blue Mars, and then the Martians.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
And the actual set of books is all about terraforming Mars.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
Look, it's a made-up story.