<b>Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel * Soon to be a series on Spike TV</b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>One of the most enthralling science fiction sagas ever written, Kim Stanley Robinson's epic trilogy concludes with <i>Blue Mars</i> - a triumph of prodigious research and visionary storytelling.</b><br> <b> </b><br> The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers." Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the human race, the inhabitants of the red planet are heading toward a population explosion - or interplanetary war.<br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>Blue Mars</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> "A breakthrough even from [Robinson's] own consistently high levels of achievement."<b> - <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> "Exhilarating . . . a complex and deeply engaging dramatization of humanity's future."<b> - <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> "[<i>Blue Mars</i>] brings the epic to a rousing conclusion."<b> - <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>
