“The novels and short stories of Kim Stanley Robinson constitute one of the most impressive bodies of work in modern science fiction….He virtually invented a new kind of science fiction in which characters as richly drawn as any in conventional fiction inhabit near-future worlds evoked with as much verisimilitude as the contemporary settings of any conventional novel.”

— Gerald Jonas , The New York Times Book Review

“This epic tale of colonization, settlement, and revolution on Mars is a people story despite lots of technical detail: it is impossible to stop reading.”

— The Philadelphia Press

“Promises to become a classic…This is epic science fiction in the best sense of the term — thoughtful, provoking, and haunting.”

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Splendid characters in a brilliantly realized and utterly convincing setting…For power, scope, depth, and detail, no other Martian epic comes close….An intricate and fascinating mosaic of science and politics, love and betrayal, survival and discovery, murder and revolution.”

— Kirkus Reviews

“A staggering book…the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”

— Arthur C. Clarke , author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee)

“An expansive widescreen epic of the settlement of Mars, the kind of sweeping narrative that could be called ‘old fashioned’ save that few science-fiction writers, old or new, have ever done a job so well…beautifully detailed and vividly realized…Not only the best SF novel about Mars ever written, but one of the best novels of political science fiction yet published in English. Readers across a broad spectrum of literary tastes should enjoy it.”

— New York Newsday

“An enthralling work, as vast and colorful as its namesake subject…beautifully written, and an epic in the classical sense — a narrative of heroic scope peopled with heroic characters…Robinson is a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas….Its last chapters fly past, until we reach those final stunning pages.”

— Detroit Metro Times

“A splendid book…The scientific background and technological details are utterly convincing, the people come alive, and as the story comes to its catastrophic climax, it gives a sense of time passing and history happening such as is rare in world literature.”

— Poul Anderson

“ Red Mars will be the Dispossessed of the nineties; as with Le Guin’s novel, a host of new political thoughts will be awakened by it, to match the unforeseeable possibilities of the new century. Red Mars is one of those rare moments in which science fiction and the mainstream novel meet and coincide, without either one losing its gratifications: you can read it either way. It is Robinson’s most ambitious work by far, in which all his varied literary and descriptive gifts finally come together: collective delirium and personal lyric experience, the epic of sport and physical exertion, the language of exotic landscapes, farce, a vivid characterization of memorable individuals — all this now struck and illuminated by History as by a lightning bolt.”

— Fredric Jameson esY+0ugLdaGPzkXFgj4JIxk4FRRaUYIHVZNxPdOIQPmBYDUkcVGH5bKxfp/jV0ey