true 1371624338 77507 0553560735 9780553560732 1442 https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77507.Red_Mars 572 Mass Market Paperback Spectra 1 1993 10 3.81 36620 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>John Boone, Maya Toitavna, 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 and 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.<br><br>The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets 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.<br><br>Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, <em>Red Mars</em> is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in human evolution and creating a world in its entirety. <em>Red Mars</em> shows us a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision. 1858 Kim Stanley Robinson 3.78 112948 7090 1993 0 0 false none Sun Aug 23 09:25:13 -0700 2015 Sun Aug 23 09:25:14 -0700 2015 0 0 1371623371 48002 0061031321 9780061031328 626 https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-bcc042a9c91a29c1d680899eff700a03.png https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48002.Thief_of_Time 378 Paperback Harper 2008 4.21 38369 Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.<br>And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.<br>But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.<br>Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous). 1654 Terry Pratchett 4.11 2442891 73518 2008 0 0 false none Sun Aug 23 09:23:51 -0700 2015 Sun Aug 23 09:23:52 -0700 2015 0 0