Green Mars
- 656
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
- Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel
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Our view
“Green Mars” is hard science fiction at its most thorough, a long novel of terraforming and revolution. The middle volume of the Mars trilogy holds some readers with its politics, strongest in the final third; others are worn down by the slow pace, the passages on geology and characters sunk in introspection. At over six hundred and fifty pages, it suits those who want to know how a new society on Mars might be built.
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About the book
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel • Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic trilogy depicting the colonization of Mars continues in a thrilling and timeless novel that pits the settlers against their greatest foes: themselves. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planet’s hostile, barren beauty. Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, partnerships, and rivalries explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.
Reading order · Mars trilogy
Full order & progress →- Red MarsStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - Green MarsThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Blue Mars
7.87.8 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 331 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 69% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 37 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 294 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Green Mars?
It has 656 pages — longer than 88% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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