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Hardback Condition: Fine. Red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author. Foxing on the edges, bit bumped on top and bottom edges, but hardly to spot. First endpaper inscribed in pencil - First Edition Signed 09/05. But otherwise very nice, clean, tight, crisp copy with straight spine, probably never been read. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. Jacket protected in removable clear sleeve; price unclipped, slightly faded on spine, no foxing - very clean. Red Mars won the British Science Fiction Award in 1992 and Nebula in 1993. Mars was 1st published in the UK by Harper Collins in 1992, bound in red cloth boards, black jacket with grey lettering and a red martian scape banded across the front flap and spine. The number line reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The 1st US edition was published in New York by Spectra in 1993.

Red Mars is the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. It is a tale of the colonization of Mars by humans in the late 21st century and their struggle to form a stable society and terraform the planet. The novel combines elements of political intrigue, personal drama, and ethical questioning relative to colonization, governance, and environmental change. It is known for its detailed and scientifically plausible depiction of the process of terraforming Mars.