black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge sceince in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.įor eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet.
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