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Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) (2017) 3 stars

All politics and science, zero vibes or character. Still important. Fuck Elon Musk.

4 stars

Prose could have more vibes & it dragged in some parts but it's a must read about how Mars colonization is going to solve jack shit and develops a global capitalist resource extraction hellfest.

Includes migration politics, migrants going off grid to escape their shitty companies, new ways of warfare like destroying domed cities by increasing oxygen levels and setting the air on fire, new levels of geological terror only it's not "state" terror. Instead it's space UN working on the behalf of the interest of giant companies benefiting from mining the shit out of Mars as Earth destroys itself with continuous warfare. Yeah this tracks.