Mars trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries.
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Red Mars trilogy won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993.
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Icehenge, Robinson's first novel about Mars trilogy, is not set in this universe but deals with similar themes and plot elements.
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Mars trilogy is to some extent joined in this position by John Boone, famous as the "First Man on Mars" from a preceding expedition and rival to Frank Chalmers, the technical leader of the American contingent.
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Green Mars trilogy takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has allowed plants to grow.
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Blue Mars trilogy takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has allowed atmospheric pressure and temperature to increase so that liquid water can exist on the planet's surface, forming rivers and seas.
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Mars trilogy becomes the "Head" of the system, giving universal healthcare, free education, and an abundance of food.
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Genetic engineering is first mentioned in Red Mars trilogy; it takes off when Sax creates an alga to withstand the harsh Martian temperature and convert its atmosphere into breathable air.
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Great portion of Blue Mars trilogy is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments.
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Mars trilogy's ideas continue as a point of reference for the remainder of the trilogy.
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Mars trilogy becomes a school teacher of the children of the hidden colonists but later becomes a powerful political force.
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Mars trilogy suffers heavily from bipolar disorder and from memory-related psychological disorders with growing age, which often lead her to isolate herself from others and sometimes turn violent.
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Mars trilogy helps to construct a new and larger habitat, and research facility in a nearby canyon.
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Mars trilogy leads the team which establishes an outpost on the moon Phobos, and leads an uprising against the transnational corporation towards the end of first novel.
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Mars trilogy subsequently suffers from Expressive aphasia and has to relearn how to speak and becomes less predictable in his actions.
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Originally apolitical, this event and a growing attachment to Mars trilogy itself leads Russell to become the physical architect of the second revolution.
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An American geologist, Clayborne is one of the first areologists and maintains a stalwart desire to see Mars trilogy preserved in the state it holds when humans arrive.
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Mars trilogy is the charismatic leader of the farm team, one of the important work groups and cliques among the First Hundred.
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Mars trilogy thus becomes the focus of many of the trilogy's central themes.
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Taneev heads medical treatment and most research projects on Mars trilogy, becoming famous as the creator of the gerontological treatment used to regenerate human cellular systems and ushering in a new era of longevity.
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Mars trilogy becomes a leading figure in the underground and an unofficial coordinator of a developing gift economy.
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Since the Mars trilogy covers over 200 years of human history, later immigrants and the children and grandchildren of the First Hundred eventually become important characters in their own right.
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People who immigrated from Earth are called issei, the first generation born on Mars trilogy are nisei, and the second-generation Martians are sansei.
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Mars trilogy dies during the second revolution, after an unsuccessful attack on the second space elevator.
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Mars trilogy is a good-natured wanderer who eventually becomes a political leader advocating ties with Earth.
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Mars trilogy is one of the founders of the Free Mars movement and is famous for his running technique that allows him to run all day for days on end.
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