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      Voyager Classics

      GREEN MARS

      KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

       Copyright

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

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 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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      Source ISBN: 9780007119592

      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2013 ISBN: 9780007402090

      Version: 2019-06-07

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       Dedication

      For Lisa and David

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       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

       PART ONE Areoformation

       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

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