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BLUE MARS (MARS, NO 3) Paperback – 1997

by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)

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Book 3 of 3 in the Mars Trilogy Series

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Paperback: 761 pages
Publisher: Spectra (1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553573357
ISBN-13: 978-0553573350
ASIN: B000P18YV6
Package Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.5 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
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Mike

What a journey!

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2019

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Blue Mars ties up the trilogy very neatly: the ideas started in Red Mars continue on toward their logical ends. I find that I miss reading the arguments and adventures of what remains of the First 100(+1).

The book isn't perfect: The segments on Earth drag on, it's never explained why the scientific communities on Earth and Mars don't seem to cooperate at all, and I really would have liked to have gotten a few dozen more pages about exactly how and why Hiroko started Zygote.

I feel like we completed this long journey and it was nice to see the first 100(+1) changing over time and becoming closer as they all get older. The scene with Sax and Maya coming up with new colors was very sweet, and wouldn't have worked without the first two and a half books to make the scene work.

Nirgal seems.. listless in the book, which is kind of a shame. But it is realistic. It seemed like the author didn't know what to do with Jackie, and the only options were political assassination or "I have to leave the planet now." We were clearly supposed to dislike

All in all this was one of my favorite hard sci fi series of all time. I'll really miss everyone.

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Carolyn H. Stepp

Red Mars was excellent, as long as it kept to the idea ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2017

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Kim Stanley Robinson - I read the whole trilogy from Red to Green to Blue Mars. Red Mars was excellent, as long as it kept to the idea of how to make Mars a planet where people could live. Green Mars was difficult for me to read because there was so much biological information I did not understand. Blue Mars was more about how much further humankind was taking us, including the ability to live for 200 years and more. The one theme I found in the complete series was that humankind takes its inability to work together as a whole. There were always the arguments, debates, unwillingness to see all sides of every story. On the whole, it appears that humankind will never be able to get along, even into the far future. I think that is a legitimate quarrel to make, but I also find it disheartening to know.

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Robb Wetmore

#3 of 3 but still worth your time.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018

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Weakest of the epic series. I have read and re-read the entire series numerous times over the past 20+ years. There are parts in the book, or should I say characters, that I absolutely love and I look forward to those Parts. However, by this time in the timeline Maya just becomes whiny and her mood swings just get annoying. There are Parts that just go on forever, weighed down in KSR’s attention to detail. This really is a great book and all sci-fi fans should read it. Even now, the political and social situations are relevant if only you replace the power countries of the 90s with those in play today. And with the current space race heating up and talk of colonization this book and the entire Martian series should be mandatory reading for those planning our future.

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Mrgrumpypants

Worth The Effort! Amazing Scope! Inspiring Story.

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020

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Although some will complain this last in the series is slow paced compared to the first two books, I think it does a good job at pulling together a lot of huge story arcs, which happen when your characters live over two hundred years. That said, there is a lot of expository narrative to read, however, I found it very worth it.
I’ve read Sci-Fi voraciously since 1964. To me, this series seems prophetic. Perhaps some of the science is a bit dated, being conceived and written in the 1990s. We know a lot more now about the dangers and challenges we may encounter in our efforts to expand our reach into our solar system.
All that not withstanding, I believe we (humanity) will overcome those obstacles. Maybe we could even learn to live together more harmoniously and efficiently, as conceived here in this series.
I believe in the power of human ingenuity and creativity. We have a chance to truly find our place in the universe before we destroy ourselves. This series outlines one way that could come to be.

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ANM

Mars will never be the same...

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015

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KSR writes like he has been given a blank book of a predetermined size and he must fill it. He may be a good writer but there is just too much filler, filler that would best be left out. When reading his works I find myself skipping pages because of his tedious descriptions. Some of his lists have dozens of items when in most cases just a few would suffice; and some of his descriptions, though informative and correct, are simply too long. I feel that the Mars trilogy should be condensed to a single three part book.

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A. Delbosc

I wasn't prepared for how much I would care about the characters

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014

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I had mixed feelings about starting this series, and yes there were plenty of times when I skimmed over the more dry and technical sections. But I was completely unprepared for how much I would care for the characters by the end of the series.

For the first two books they felt more like narrative devices than full fleshed out people - a way for the author to explore different aspects of colonisation. And that was fine, I was happily along for the ride.

But it's a long ride, and by the end they start to feel like old friends. And then those old friends start to reach the end of their run. They suddenly seem so much more human, so much more vulnerable. I found myself tearing up at several points during particularly poignant goodbyes.

Taken together, this book completes the trilogy by instilling it with the emotional investment that wasn't necessarily present in the first two. Bravo, Kim Stanley Robinson. Bravo.

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Bruce Zaretsky

A commitment but worth it

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019

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It’s a long ride from Red Mars to Blue Mars, but what a ride. KSR obviously did his scientific homework, but he also wrote an epic trip. It was cool to be reading about Blue Mars and remembering when the First Hundred arrived to a barren planet, and how they built it up for survival. Sometimes getting through the ad nauseam descriptions of planetary formations and “terraforming” and atmospheric tampering was a bit of a slog, but you really were there, experiencing it all with the “Martians”. Great book trilogy. I’m looking forward to reading more of his stuff.

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Chas

Satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2018

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I read the Mars trilogy like a box set, something I never do but it was "unputdownable", literally. In Blue Mars the familiar characters from the first hundred are growing very old and confronting mental health challenges. The old arguments over terraforming continue but effectively the argument is won. Mars has an ocean, seas and canals. Can Anne be reconciled to the new wildlife of the planet?

Like the first two books, Blue Mars is not your usual sc-fi. It's the story of the people who came and made it home; of their children, and their children's children.

The language is rich with detailed descriptions of the science and technology and biology. My vocabulary was sorely lacking, thank goodness for Kindle word look-up, keep a good dictionary handy if reading the physical book. Here are a few examples:

anamnesis
vicinal
tubulin dimers
mentation
plenum
eskaton
xeriscape
thassalocracy

However lots of typos, is this the Kindle digitisation process?

Highly recommended.

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There are typos like that throughout

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2016

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Do NOT buy kindle edition! Riddled with appalling typographical errors, which verge on making some passages almost unreadably irritating. I have just had to read a whole chapter in which there is constant reference a French town near the mouth of the Rhone called "Aries". I assume the author meant "Arles". That is only the most conspicuous error because it is repeated and glaring. Just looking back over the last three pages I have also encountered "Muttering" for "muttering" and "je tie sais quoi" for "je ne sais quoi". There are typos like that throughout. I really am usually not a pedant and am usually forgiving of small errors, but there are so many here it is really noticeable.
I read the first two books in the trilogy in hard copy and did not find these kind of errors.

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L. Davidson

Wonderful conclusion to an epic trilogy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2005

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"Blue Mars" continues direstly from where "Green Mars" left off. The Martians have gained their independence from Earth and now set about establishing new forms of government and developing their own way of life, rather than have it decided for them by the Terran meta-nationals. The book focuses heavily on the actions of the remnants of the First Hundred, such as Sax,Ann,Maya and Nadia plus new characters like Zo and Nirgal.
"Blue Mars" as the title suggests is set on a fully terraformed Mars. The atmosphere has thickened and heated up and the ice seas have melted and created a hydrosphere similar to Earth. The masks and walkers have now been disposed of. The scientific substance of the book now concentrates on developing the longevity treatment, ecopoesis and the psychological difficulties of coping with living for 200 years plus.
I didn't find "Blue Mars" to be as fascinating and exciting as the first two books of the trilogy and was a bit overlong. Perhaps that was due to over familiarity with the setting and characters and it was only when Nirgal and Zo featured heavily that "Blue Mars" had a character of its own and came to life , but unfortunately most of the book concentrated on the First Hundred whose lifes work was more or less complete by the end of "Green Mars". I would have liked to have read more about "The Accelerando" instead. I also didn't like the prolonged ending to "Blue Mars"; I thought it was lacking in impact somewhat and didn't bring the Trilogy to the spectacular end it deserved.
However "Blue Mars" is still a wonderful book, full of impressive and credible scientific detail, and if Mars is to be colonised then this trilogy is a perfect guidebook for its terraformation. However the timeframe for the colonisation set out by Robinson is slightly over-optimistic I think ; maybe by a hundred years or so. I cant see antelope roaming the forests of Mars until the 23rd Century at least ! Although technology is advancing all the time.
As I read through the Mars Trilogy, I couldnt help but think that science, in its entirety, the geology,biology,physics,chemistry and all its subdivisions , is nothing more than Man progressively trying to get into the mind of God, to be God. They are a very humanist and rationalist series of novels, however they promote a form of intellectual elitism. Science is worshipped,science can provide the answers to everything and highly intelligent elitists know best. There is no room for religion or the supernatural in this vision.
"Blue Mars" is a must read for those who have read the first two books, it would be incomprehensible if you haven't. It is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable series of novels. It is also easy to read ; I raced through its 800 pages in 9 days, so theres no excuse for not reading the whole series now !

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joshimitsu

The final anti climax

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2015

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I only read this because there was something about reaching out to the solar system and the stars, but... [SPOILER]
that stuff was just a footnote to the main bit about forming a new govt, and the new ecology.
I stopped caring about Phyllis and her one dimensional "Mars is a national park" stick in the muddedness.
I had to skip Michael Duval's bloody sentimental holiday in his home region. It felt like a pointless dead end. I didn't see him as enough of a key character to devote so much page space to his attachment to his home town.
More long winded descriptions. These books really needed a handful of sketches in the back, maybe.
These books deserve a set of mini series though, say 10 episodes for each book.
OK, I'm going back to my short and sharp Kindle self publishing sets.

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N. Harpur

Great in parts

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2013

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Having now read all three in the trilogy I would say that they are a worthy effort, firmly in the tradition of Azimov and Clarke (in their more epic modes) - but for me slightly let down by a lack of editing. Rather too much geology and geography, both repeated in lengthy chunks throughout the storyline. The plot and characters are excellent, truly well thought out and developed; witness the fact that I did read all three books, but I did have to skim read a bit too much for my liking. I don't mind at all to read beautiful and imaginative descriptive passages, but in all three books I really felt there was just too much of it... and it did disrupt the flow of the story in a way you would never find in the likes of classic Azimov (Foundation trilogy for example). Nevertheless, this quality of 'serious' science fiction is rare these days and this Mars trilogy still well deserving of the four stars.

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Mark Anstiss.

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018

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I read this trilogy many years ago but a second reading made it possible to absorb so much more than was not remembered.
The picture in the minds eye became vivid & evolved as the books progressed.
One of these times when you felt guilty about putting it down.
I felt like one of the hundred & was on Mars with them.
It's a 'Must read".

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2018

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excellent read

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Denis Bridoux

A well researched believable scenario

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2013

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3rd Volume in the Mars trilogy. A well researched believable scenario on how to sustainably colonize Mars and make it work. A compelling future history which could be if only things could go right for once.

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Satisfying end to the Mars sagas. Living in North ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2015

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Satisfying end to the Mars sagas. Living in North Kent as I do, I was vastly amused by the autho's apparent familiarity with Sheerness seafront!

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Great Story marred by missing text - its a joke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2019

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Great Story marred by missing text - its a joke

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James

Kim Stanley Robinson's masterful conclusion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2015

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One of the most satisfactory endings to an ongoing saga, I have read in years. This story keeps living on in my imagination which is all down to how well it was written. Would highly recommend this tale to any one who loves science fiction.

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A S Darley

Trilogy 's end

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2013

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Perhaps more technical than the two previous books but nevertheless a fascinating read. Mars can never be the same
These books and this author have defined it's every aspect.

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Mrs. J. M. B. Harding

Visionary FIction!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2015

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An uncanny mixture of pure science, drama,and a visionary, compassionate philosophy proclaiming some essential human values and aspirations

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Kevin Sultana

A great conclusion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2018

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A great conclusion to the trilogy.

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Roger Curtis

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2015

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Like new - the final part of a great trilogy.

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