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Page 255
Blue Mars is the third book in a sweeping trilogy about the terraforming of the
Red Planet . By this final volume , Robinson has carried the story of
environmental transformation far enough to allow embedded vignettes and
stories about human ...
Blue Mars is the third book in a sweeping trilogy about the terraforming of the
Red Planet . By this final volume , Robinson has carried the story of
environmental transformation far enough to allow embedded vignettes and
stories about human ...
Page 257
( 48 ) The emphasis on the big sky connects the planet to one of the common
tropes of American western writing and contrasts with the novel ' s opening
setting , an Earth where it is no longer possible to go out under the sky
unprotected .
( 48 ) The emphasis on the big sky connects the planet to one of the common
tropes of American western writing and contrasts with the novel ' s opening
setting , an Earth where it is no longer possible to go out under the sky
unprotected .
Page 259
The bulk of the novel takes place on a " generation ship ” toward the end of its
long voyage from Earth to a new planet , but Gloss subverts the most common
version of this setting by showing a society that has grown stronger and more ...
The bulk of the novel takes place on a " generation ship ” toward the end of its
long voyage from Earth to a new planet , but Gloss subverts the most common
version of this setting by showing a society that has grown stronger and more ...
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Science Fiction Studies was founded in 1973 by R D Mullen 19151998 and | 316 |
Arthur B Evans | 359 |
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