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Blue Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
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The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers." The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the ba... more info>> 2003 Hugo Award Winner
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Antarctica [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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From the award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy comes a thrilling new novel.... Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Mars trilogy, is one of the most original and visionary writers of fiction today. Now, in his latest novel, he takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet--it is the last pure wilderness on earth. A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its strange... more info>>
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Red Mars and Green Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Two eBooks in One! Red Mars: 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. 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. John B... more info>> 2003 Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Winner
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Forty Signs of Rain [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital--and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 195... more info>> Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
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Fifty Degrees Below [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers--and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming--which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures ... When the storm got bad, scientist Frank Vanderwal was at work, f... more info>>
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Sixty Days and Counting [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn't intend to give up without a fight. A mav... more info>>
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Galileo's Dream [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The winner of every major science fiction award, Kim Stanley Robinson is a novelist who looks ahead with optimism even while acknowledging the steep challenges facing our planet and species: a clear-eyed realist who has not forgotten how to dream. His new novel offers his most audacious dream yet. At the heart of a brilliant narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is one man, the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei.To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Gal... more info>>
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Red Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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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. 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. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Cha... more info>> 2003 Nebula Award(R) Winner
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Green Mars [Secure Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets hostile, barren beauty. Led by reb... more info>> 2003 Hugo Award Winner
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A Short, Sharp Shock [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling Red Mars, Green Mars, and the soon-to-be-published Blue Mars, was called "a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas" by The Detroit Metro News. Now he confirms his reputation for brilliance and for the unexpected in this luminous short work.A Short, Sharp ShockA man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from... more info>>
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Blue Mars and The Martians [Secure Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Two eBooks in One! Blue Mars: The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, covered by seas and settlements, Mars has been dramatically terraformed from a desert world into one where humans can flourish. All that remains is to finish creating a breathable atmosphere and an ecosystem full of wondrous genetically engineered Martian creatures. But as Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. The Great Flood threatens an already overpopulated and polluted planet, and Mars faces a... more info>> 2003 Nebula Award(R) Winner
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The Years of Rice and Salt [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.... It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur--the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of... more info>> 2003 Hugo Award Nominee
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The Martians [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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From a training mission in Antarctica to blistering sandstorms sweeping through labyrinths of barren canyons, the interwoven stories of The Martians set in motion a sprawling cast of characters upon the surface of Mars. As the planet is transformed from an unexplored and forbidding terrain to a troubled image of a re-created Earth, we meet men and women who are bound together by their experiences on Mars and with each other. Among them are Michel, a French psychologist dazzled by the beauty arou... more info>> 2003
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