Red Mars again

[ailbhe]

Lord of the Flies in space with grownups - this time, with women! Still all white and straight though. Except for some token Mysteriously Spiritual Meditative East Asian bits.

I liked it well enough to start Green Mars though.

Comments

[songster.livejournal.com]

I found that the trilogy started by being compelling and ended up as eat-your-own-leg-off appalling. This has very little to do with plot or characterisation, and much more to do with the fact that the actual science in Red Mars is mostly physics, whereas in Green and Blue Mars he starts dabbling in biology. The physics seemed solid, while the biology and psychology are awful. Probably a physicist would say the opposite :-)