Space Opera Novels (Book Guide) - Consider Phlebas, Excession, the Player of Games, Use of Weapons, the State of the Art, Look to Windward (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 47. Chapters: Consider Phlebas, Excession, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Look to Windward, Inversions, Mars trilogy, The Patterns of Chaos, Fighters of Danveyt, Redemption Ark, Ethan of Athos, Second Stage Lensmen, The Uplift War, The Prefect, The Skylark of Space, Triplanetary, Absolution Gap, Startide Rising, Children of the Lens, Brightness Reef, Matter, Revelation Space, Surface Detail, Gray Lensman, Galactic Patrol, The Solarians, First Lensman, Sentinels novels, The Witches of Karres, Chasm City, Diplomatic Immunity, The Quiet War, Debatable Space, Heaven's Reach, The New Space Opera, Hull Zero Three, The Crucible of Time, Skylark DuQuesne, Deep Navigation, The Praxis, Infinity's Shore, With the Lightnings, The Sundering. Excerpt: The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster. The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). An additional collection of short stories and background information was published as The Martians (1999). The main trilogy won a number of prestigious awards. Red Mars starts in 2026 with the first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever, the Ares, with a crew who are to be the first hundred colonists, composed for the most part of Russians and Americans. The book details the construction of the first settlement on Mars, called Underhill. A debate among the coloni...