false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184706141m/1524379.jpg 1524379 3 <I>White Mars</I> is, as its title implies, Brian Aldiss's considered reply to the novels <I>Red Mars</I>, <I>Green Mars</I>, and <I>Blue Mars</I>, in which Kim Stanley Robinson portrayed the terraforming of our neighbor planet and the creation of a utopian society there. Aldiss disapproves of the whole idea of meddling with another world in the first place, and, more genially, of the melodrama surrounding the creation of Robinson's utopia. Where Robinson's Martians get their chance after near-genocidal warfare on Mars and environmental disaster on Earth, Aldiss's get theirs as the result of a corruption- and scandal-fuelled recession in which supplies for the Martian colony are cut. This is, unusually for the shrewd and sometimes cynical Aldiss, a novel with a hero--Tom Jeffreys, the Thomas Jefferson of this Martian revolution:<p> <blockquote>His manner was less severe than well controlled. He showed great determination for the cause in which he believed, yet softened it with humour, which sprang from an innate modesty. He was not above self-mockery. In his speech he adopted the manner of a plain man, yet what he said was often unexpected.</blockquote> This is a very English, very urbane book, in which there is an awful lot of talk--about utopia, about consciousness, about subatomic particles; Aldiss collaborated on parts of the book with mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose. It is a wise book and a knowledgeable one. <I>--Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1516285 1999 White Mars total:7|4:2|3:4|2:1| 7 22 16 1 1524379 0312254733 9780312254735 5 1 3.14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184706141m/1524379.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1524379.White_Mars 3 0 false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 16:01:14 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:31:05 -0700 2009 White Mars a read to provoke oneself into questioning what they take for granted in human society.

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