04184cam a2200505 4500 761554930 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 080618s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553898279 electronic bk. : Adobe Reader 0553898272 electronic bk. : Adobe Reader B000QCS914 Amazon 0eafe4c7-7c09-4502-81b4-d2218caf283b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 38286 OverDrive (Product ID) 156201 156201 156201 (OCoLC)232303193 TEFOD TEFOD TEFOD ORE TXN TxAuBib Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars [Libby eBook] / Kim Stanley Robinson. New York : Bantam Books, 2003. 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Title from eBook information screen. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitovna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness; for others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. And for the genetic "alchemists", Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life, and death. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planet's surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves, and friendships will form and fall to pieces, for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed. Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. Red Mars shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Planets Environmental engineering Fiction. Space colonies Fiction. Mars (Planet) Fiction. Mars (Planet) Colonization Fiction. Science fiction. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0EAFE4C7-7C09-4502-81B4-D2218CAF283B https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0EA/FE4/C7/RedMarsMarsTrilogyBook019780553898279.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0EAFE4C7-7C09-4502-81B4-D2218CAF283B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0EA/FE4/C7/RedMarsMarsTrilogyBook019780553898279.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0EAFE4C7-7C09-4502-81B4-D2218CAF283B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/0EA/FE4/C7/RedMarsMarsTrilogyBook019780553898279.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0EAFE4C7-7C09-4502-81B4-D2218CAF283B&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8