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- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
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- Yyooojolopo
- 01-12-2018
You can never go back.
It's my third time through this treasure series and I see the story play out differently with each new phase of my life. For the first time I noticed the roles of the four greatest of the first hundred mimic the four elements. Sax's obsession with air, Maya building oceans of water, Ann lost in the Ka and Nadia using fire the way humans have harnessed it for thousands of years to animate our tools of building. I wept twice in nirgals chapters here in part green as he expressed his love for his family in such relatable ways. I'm amazed at how invested I am in Robinsons idea of an ideal human colonization. It gives me hope for the future that I seem to want the same things as him, that we have in fact come a long way in the past few decades, if only in our minds. After all, as the great Maya Toitevna will once say, the fulcrum is in our minds.
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- S.
- 04-09-2018
Magnificent.
A truly magnificent story, and wonderfully narrated by Richard Ferrone. I highly recommend all the books in the Mars trilogy. I honestly dont know where to begin in how the imagination, research, and sheer vision of these books completely changed the course of my life. And as someone who retrained as a geoscientist as a result of this series, I dont say that lightly. Please, do yourselves a favour and take the time to listen to the messages within it.
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- M. Beard
- 13-02-2018
loved it
A fabulous engaging story. I happily got lost in the world of Mars, the science, the politics and the people.
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- Ronald McCoy
- 21-07-2019
Great story of future Mars (and Earth!) history
The second in the Mars trilogy explores the future colonisation and terraforming of Mars. Great science and plotting, making a gripping read. Like a lot of stories that take an epic view, often the characterisation is a little flat, making engagement of the character care factor a little challenging, but that might be just me. I really enjoyed the grand scale of the story, because of the fantastic climax (like the first novel) and the science. A great read.
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- Wassum
- 18-04-2016
Great author
Absolutely brilliant as far as I am concerned. At least as good as Red Mar
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-12-2022
Great continuation saga
Just as good if not better than the books! When I has this in book form I read all three (red, green, and blue mars) in one night, that's how enraptured I was. This was a great performance on an already great book saga! Thank you!
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- Roger
- 03-07-2023
If a Uni research paper and the speaking clock had a baby…
As a thought experiment for the colonisation of Mars; this is prophetically brilliant. It’s detailed, smart and well researched.
As an engaging novel, it’s rubbish. The plot is like a Monet: landscapes with broad brushstrokes that really only come into focus at a distance.
The characterisation is superficial and simple; everyone is faceless. Switch around their names and nothing changes. It’s like having a highly rendered, beautiful open world computer game, solely populated with 8bit NPC’s that make early 2000’s Sims characters seem deep. They are all in service to the description of the concept, whereas truly engaging storytelling should be the other way around. There is a reason why this deeply cerebral book doesn’t seem to have captured the cultural zeitgeist.
Im dreading going back to Mars to finish the trilogy.
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- Kim
- 26-03-2015
Long but interesting descriptions
You learn a lot but it can be hard going. Story is great and if you like an in depth world this is it!!!
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- Oliver A. R. Drummond
- 14-12-2021
Good storyline but way too detailed
The overall storyline and plot are really good but in some parts it gets lost in such a level of detail that it loses the pace.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-2019
this drags on forever
after greatly enjoying the first book I was rather looking forward to this, but how I've been disappointed. There is no real story developed, just endless events....then they gone here, then they drive there, then...
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