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Per secoli, le aride e desolate lande del pianeta rosso, sferzate da tempeste di sterile sabbia, hanno rappresentato per il genere umano la nuova frontiera della conquista interplanetaria. Nell'anno 2026 un gruppo di cento coloni è pronto a compiere l'impresa: raggiungere Marte e trasformarlo in una nuova Terra. Per alcuni, Marte è la meta ultima di una vita votata alla conoscenza e al coraggio, per altri è solo un'opportunità di arricchi-mento, per altri ancora è un'imperdibile occasione di progresso nella scienza. I piani della missione prevedono di far orbitare intorno al pianeta enormi specchi che amplifichino la luce del Sole sulla superficie, di cospargere le calotte polari di una polvere scura che catturi il calore e faccia sciogliere il ghiaccio, di costruire tunnel che veicolino gas incandescenti che producano un aumento della temperatura. Eppure, nonostante gli sforzi titanici e le risorse messe in campo, qualcuno sarà disposto a combattere fino alla morte per evitare che Marte diventi qualcosa di diverso da quello che è sempre stato.
- ISBN: 8834740335
- Casa Editrice: Fanucci
- Pagine: 468
- Data di uscita: 02-07-2020
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I just finished reading this for the second or third time. I wish I could bump this up to 3.5 stars, which more reflects what I feel about it. To begin with, I should come forward with my biases. This is a book you'll either love or you will hate. For my part, I love the planet Mars. Or at least, I
An extremely detailed and ridiculously well researched novel on the colonization of Mars, this book is absolutely maddening. The characters veer from believable three dimensional humans to weird caricatures and plot devices within a few pages. And the author's exploration of the political implicatio Leggi tutto
What a vision, what a detailed description of both the hard science and humanities escalating towards misuse by politics, economics, ideology, and faith. The cognitive dissonance between high tech and naked ape primitivity As always, by the way, there seems to be close to no sci-fi author who doesn´t Leggi tutto
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“History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.” Red Mars is a fantastic beginning to Kim Stanley Robinso Leggi tutto
As an avid reader of Science Fiction, this book bored me to tears with its utterly one dimensional characters and utterly predictable plot (once one figured out, in the first 50 pages or so, that the characters were entirely linear and incapable of deviation from their preassigned courses). The "cli Leggi tutto
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. T
Hard SF novel about the colonization of Mars. An initial group of 100 colonists, men and women, is shipped off from Earth to Mars to try to terraform the planet and make it a better fit for human life. Kim Stanley Robinson explores all of the science involved in doing that, as well as the political
I'm not always a lover of what's known as "hard" sf -- sf that's filled with lots of hard science, in this case science regarding ecology, geology, and all sorts of other brain-straining disciplines. But what's remarkable to me about this book is how complex and human Kim Stanley Robinson makes his
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