Blue Mars

Extract: Finally, I'm done with the Robinson's Mars Trilogy. It was a very long journey. After being rather nonplussed with Green Mars, I wasn't expecting much from Blue Mars. It's longer than the first two installments, and still full of extremely long landscape, technical, and political ramblings, or rather, prose. And besides, what else can you say about Mars now that it's terraformed, a government is established, and people are living to be over two hundred years old? As it turns out, not that much. But you can finally really rely on slices of life of your characters to create something like a collection of inter-related short stories to convey the experience of living on Mars…