Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

It had been a power; now it became a place.

some of it good, some indescribably shoddy, but all of it unmatched—some of it even built in inches—so

That was Arkady; he felt things freely and to the full, and wasn’t much worried about consistency.

Frank, who had a sixth sense for trouble between John and Maya (six would not be necessary),

The video was of a massive protest march in Manhattan, the whole island packed with a crowd the protesters would call ten million and the police five hundred thousand.

With the luxury of haste they could be sloppy,