#marstrilogy — Public Fediverse posts

@xenogon
The way I read #MarsTrilogy and judging by the actual outcome in the end, i.e. a fully colonized and terraformed Mars, KSR was against neither colonizing nor terraforming it. And to discuss what was at stake there, he turned his main characters to narrators, to tell the story from their own point of view. To see that as propaganda would require some kind of 'orthodoxy', an adherence to party or strict ideological lines, a.k.a. 'political correctness', hence my comment. Did he

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@andrealuck
Ah, yes, Charitum Montes. John Boone flew there in a glider from the town Senzeni Na (meaning, "what have we done?" in Japanese), to talk to Ann Clayborne, after someone (maybe from the Reds?) attempted to assassinate him in a mohole near Senzeni Na.

The maps show that flight on top of the georeferenced Tianwen-1 image 🙃

#RedMars #MarsTrilogy #SciFi #KSR #KimStanleyRobinson

Coyote sent word he's coming to Jezero Crater in one of his boulder cars. #Perseverance is doing its best to break his invisibility cloak and see him approaching … 🙃

Quickly processed MCZ_RIGHT mosaic, FL: 34mm
looking W (270°) from RMC 89.4246
Sol 1932, LMST: 12:04:58
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01932/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1932_0838451257_303EBY_N0894246ZCAM09979_0340LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #KSR #SciFi #KimStanleyRobinson #MarsTrilogy

The fun when you think you picked up a science fiction novel, but it’s really a sociology treatise. Not. #KimStanleyRobinson #MarsTrilogy

I have just returned from walking St James’s Way. It is perhaps the most famous of the medieval pilgrimage routes: for twelve centuries pilgrims have walked it to reach the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, and they still do.

Read the complete post: http://www.cottica.net/2026/05/21/what-do-people-do-when-they-are-free-from-need-reflecting-on-st-jamess-way-john-maynard-keynes-and-science-fiction/

LONG THREAD 1/38

#St.James'sWay #MarsTrilogy #economics #IainBanks

Jetzt auch als Podcast: Folge #63

https://www.fantastische-wissenschaftlichkeit.de/?p=7572

Kuba hat sich so sehr in Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars-Trilogie vertieft, dass er die Erde nun mit anderen Augen sieht. Außerdem löst er den mysteriösen Fisheye-Fall aus Folge #47 und berichtet von den Summer Games Done Quick 2025. Marta vertieft sich dagegen in Moleküle, die nichts mit Kohlenstoff zu tun haben, und stellt sich der Frage, ob man aus ihnen Leben bauen kann.

#ScienceFiction #MarsTrilogy #SGDQ2025 #Siliconies #Fisheye #VR

@andrealuck
All right, it's all coming together piece by piece 😀

#KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy map using your georeferenced images as overlays:

#QGIS #Mars #Solarocks #Space #SciFi

So, I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy when the books were first published (early 1990s). They were fascinating and I enjoyed them immensely so here I am re-reading but in the middle of the first book Red Mars, I’m already struggling!! Irritating characters, very very long chunks of science explainers - & the meandering nature of the whole thing.

What the hell? Does anyone else experience this….disappointment on re-reads?

#ScienceFiction #SciFi #MarsTrilogy #KimStanleyRobinson

Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.

Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣

#FreeAssociation

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (319°) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1109, LMST: 11:47:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01109/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1109_0765388746_706EBY_N0512390ZCAM09130_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#KSR #SciFi #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Wasn't there some talk a while ago about possibly turning #KimStanleyRobinson 's #MarsTrilogy into a tv series?

What's happening with that then? 'Cause I'd be all up in that business like a toddler wolfing chocolate pudding.

#SciFi #ScienceFiction

#InterPlanetary 🪐 #SpaceTravel might get easier

Mice’s 🐁 organs and tissues resumed a #youthful state.
The therapy “set in motion an epigenetic program that led cells to restore the #epigenetic information they had when they were #young. It’s a permanent #reset.” https://hms.harvard.edu/news/loss-epigenetic-information-can-drive-aging-restoration-can-reverse

#epigenome #epigenetics #ForeverYoung #MarsTrilogy #SciFi

#ElonMusk's #influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAD6oQZNcY

"#Multinational corporations have grown so large as a result of #globalization that they have sufficient economic power to take over or strongly manipulate national #governments, continually attempting to take over competitors in order to become the sole controller of the #interplanetary market" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy#Corporations

#MarsTrilogy #ScienceFiction #Transnats

Love this. Reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's ideas in a few of his novels that sails could again play a part in global shipping, in a slower and more sensible future. (Along with the return of dirigibles in the air.)

https://thenextweb.com/news/zero-emissions-cargo-shipping-the-old-fashioned-way

#tech #future #MarsTrilogy #MinistryForTheFuture #kimstanleyrobinson #scifi #sailing #climatechange

Localization of the first trip to the North Pole in #KimStanleyRobinson's #RedMars, with a stop at Chasma Boreale, where an Ice Miner was dropped by air at coordinates 41 W, 83 N to extract water for use in Underhill.

The first map is a polar projection showing the trip from Underhill to the North Pole.

The second map is a detail of the approach to the pole, drawn on an #ESA #MarsExpress image processed by @andrealuck , from here: https://mastodon.social/@andrealuck@fosstodon.org/110327396095633780

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #Space #Mars

I've localized with certainty the landing site and base built by the First Hundred on Mars in September 2027, called Underhill. That's of course in Kim Stanley Robinson's SciFi Mars Trilogy, [Red | Green | Blue] Mars.

The key for this is the phrase:
"One day they came back excited, having reached Ganges Catena, a series of sinkholes in the plain a hundred kilometers to the southeast", around page 97 in Red Mars.

And here are the maps 🤓 :

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #RedMars #SciFi

And the South Pole:

#Mars #MarsTrilogy #Space #KSR

Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.

Here are some maps I made while reading the books several years ago, showing cities, places and plot info. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/USGS-PlanetMars-TopographicalMap.png

Corrections and new locations will be posted to this thread.

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #Space #Mars

@andrealuck
Bennett's designs are by far the best I've found for #KSR's Mars novels, but are now hard to locate in the internets. Here's another one I've saved on disk several years ago:

#MarsTrilogy

@andrealuck
Here is William Bennett's concept of asteroid Clarke which was used as the ballast for the Space Elevator in Kim Stanley Robinson's #MarsTrilogy. In the novels, Phobos was also made a military base or something, which had a unique architectural design, IIRC.

Bennett has had some other interesting ideas about Mars colonies, equipment etc.

#KSR

Which #SpaceOpera below is best?

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#Teixcalaan (think #AMemoryCalledEmpire) by #ArkadyMartine

2️⃣
#RemembranceOfEarthsPast (AKA #TheThreeBodyProblem) by #LiuCixin

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#HyperionCantos by #DanSimmons

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#MarsTrilogy by #KimStanleyRobinson

VOTE HERE: https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109502554423364054
Or paste the link in your search and vote.
#ScienceFiction #Scifi

Friends! The #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera Series Challenge continues!

Which of the following choices is the best? Vote below.

#Teixcalaan (think #AMemoryCalledEmpire) by #ArkadyMartine

#RemembranceOfEarthsPast (AKA #TheThreeBodyProblem) by #LiuCixin

#HyperionCantos by #DanSimmons

#MarsTrilogy by #KimStanleyRobinson

If you're NOT on the Mastodon.Social instance, you can access the poll from your instance. Just search for my profile and look for the pinned toot!

PLEASE BOOST!! 🚀 👾

Also, that candidate cave is kind of close to the (fictional) town Arena, from Kim Stanley Robinson's #MarsTrilogy. Of course the vast majority of candidate caves is in the vicinity of (also fictional Martian towns) Sheffield and Nicosia.

Here are some maps I made, showing places mentioned in #KSR's novels re Mars: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/109212732193671405

@tom30519 #SciFi #Mars

And the South Pole:

#Mars #MarsTrilogy #Space

Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.

So, here are 4 Mercator and 1 polar maps showing cities, places and plot info, created while I was reading the novels. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/USGS-PlanetMars-TopographicalMap.png

Suggestions and corrections (with references) are welcome!

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #Space #Mars

Suppose I'll do an #interests posts? #introduction

#MarsTrilogy / #KimStanleyRobinson
#StarTrek
#LeftPolitics / #LeftEconomics
#Cinema
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceLearning
#CurrentAffairs
#ClimateCrisis
#Collapse
#Space
#PostWork
#AntiNationalism