Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars

Voyager Classics

Voyager Classics An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 1992

Copyright © Kim Stanley Robinson 1992

Kim Stanley Robinson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright Copyright Copyright Note to Readers Dedication PART ONE Areoformation PART TWO The Ambassador PART THREE Long Runout PART FOUR The Scientist As Hero PART FIVE Homeless PART SIX Tariqat PART SEVEN What Is To Be Done? PART EIGHT Social Engineering PART NINE The Spur of the Moment PART TEN Phase Change Keep Reading Acknowledgments Chronology Voyager Classics The Voyager Classics Collection About the Publisher Voyager Classics An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 1992 Copyright © Kim Stanley Robinson 1992 Kim Stanley Robinson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks. HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication. Source ISBN: 9780007119592 Ebook Edition © MARCH 2013 ISBN: 9780007402090 Version: 2019-06-07

Note to Readers Note to Readers Note to Readers Dedication PART ONE Areoformation PART TWO The Ambassador PART THREE Long Runout PART FOUR The Scientist As Hero PART FIVE Homeless PART SIX Tariqat PART SEVEN What Is To Be Done? PART EIGHT Social Engineering PART NINE The Spur of the Moment PART TEN Phase Change Keep Reading Acknowledgments Chronology Voyager Classics The Voyager Classics Collection About the Publisher This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech

Dedication Dedication Dedication PART ONE Areoformation PART TWO The Ambassador PART THREE Long Runout PART FOUR The Scientist As Hero PART FIVE Homeless PART SIX Tariqat PART SEVEN What Is To Be Done? PART EIGHT Social Engineering PART NINE The Spur of the Moment PART TEN Phase Change Keep Reading Acknowledgments Chronology Voyager Classics The Voyager Classics Collection About the Publisher For Lisa and David

PART ONE Areoformation

PART TWO The Ambassador

PART THREE Long Runout

PART FOUR The Scientist As Hero

PART FIVE Homeless

PART SIX Tariqat

PART SEVEN What Is To Be Done?

PART EIGHT Social Engineering

PART NINE The Spur of the Moment

PART TEN Phase Change

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Acknowledgments

Chronology

Voyager Classics

The Voyager Classics Collection

About the Publisher

The point is not to make another Earth. Not another Alaska or Tibet, not a Vermont nor a Venice, not even an Antarctica. The point is to make something new and strange, something Martian.

In a sense our intentions don’t even matter. Even if we try to make another Siberia or Sahara, it won’t work. Evolution won’t allow it, and at its heart this is an evolutionary process, an endeavour driven at a level below intention, as when life made its first miracle leap out of matter, or when it crawled out of sea onto land.