I know I ask for a lot of recommendations and I apologize for that but this community has given me a massive list of books/manga/anime to check out and I’ll probably be going through it all til I die.
My question is if anyone has any recommendations on sci-fi that is Mars related. I’ve always had a fascination with Mars and enjoy stories whether it is from the golden era or more modern. I have some books called Red/Green/Blue Mars that I haven’t read and I really want to get Jack Kirby’s The Face on Mars.
I have the Martian Chronicles but haven’t read it yet. One great Bradbury story is Mars is Heaven if you haven’t read it check it out.
Anyway, any recommendations would be appreciated
In terms of a hard sci-fi take on the mechanics of actually getting to Mars, setting up a colony and terraforming it, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is unparalleled. The quality of the writing if also top notch. However, Robinson is also a frothing-at-the-mouth leftist and the commentary on how his colonists create a new society on a new planet is infused with his own politics, so that's a huge drawback.
Ok. Well I have them but I’ll get around to reading them eventually
Counter argument against that book series, it's mostly about the politics and interpersonal dramas of the new (diverse) colony, very litte action, story starts when the colony was already established so none of that initial set up hardships/sciences, long passages about boring landscapes of long drives on Mars and according to the goodreads reviews, he even got some of the basic sciences not directly pertaining to space engineering wrong. Dropped after the first couple chapters after realizing it's not something I want to listen.
Thanks for the heads up