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Rated Green Mars (Mars Trilogy) 6/10

The new generation of Mars<br/><br/>Initially, I expected something different from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. I don't know why, but it seemed like some kind of epic action movie. However, after reading "Red Mars", I understood the focus of this work and the ideas that the author competently showed on the pages of his novel. When I started reading "Green Mars", I was already ready for the author's style and was happy to immerse myself in the world of the colonists of this planet.<br/>The events unfold decades after what happened in the last book. Here Robinson is true to himself and tells us his story again with the help of several main characters of the novel at once. A good move. This approach has already proved itself positively in the first book. Here, such a scheme works again, revealing to us the history of the planet's colonizers.<br/>"Green Mars" does not remove the problems of the first work, or rather the method of narration. You often find yourself thinking that sometimes interesting and twisted events are perfectly readable over several dozen pages. Then there seems to be a ragged distortion, when the author delves into a completely different topic of the narrative, and you, as a reader, dream of going through this segment of the work sooner. This dissonance always makes reading a kind of roulette wheel. Will you find an interesting passage today, or, conversely, a boring one.<br/>The book contains many attempts to philosophize and reveal the inner world of the main characters. It doesn't always work out well, but nevertheless it's still interesting to read the work. For some reason, the main characters in this work are less catchy than some of them from the first novel. Either they've become more cardboard-like, or interest in them has generally disappeared. Sometimes you wonder if their evolution did not end in the "Red Mars"? Perhaps they were not needed in the "Green Mars".<br/>The pace of the narrative is fading by the end of the work. However, it is very interesting how the second book of the Robinson trilogy will end. And the long wait will be rewarded in full. The last pages will definitely be remembered and will become very interesting.<br/>By the end, a pretty picture of the terraforming of the planet is being drawn. Robinson did a great job in this regard, meticulously and consistently drawing his world of Mars, which day after day became something new and wonderful. His style allows you to visualize in your imagination what this planet far from us is like now. After reading the book to the end, looking up at the night starry sky, imagine how humanity could conquer Mars in reality, leaving all strife and uniting for such a weighty goal for the entire civilization.<br/>Alas, so far these are just dreams. The works of science fiction writers allow us to see new worlds. "Green Mars" is one of the good works that is definitely worth reading.<br/>6 out of 10

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Published 2020-10-31 23:00 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere