Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

“Live,” as the Japanese said helpfully, “as if you were already dead.”

Something to think about.

“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when you get the worst kinds of civil wars. As in the conflict in Colombia that they called La Violencia, for instance. A civil war that became a complete breakdown of the state, a chaos that no one could understand, much less control.”

Or America, in the 2020's?

Agee huts,

Why is it called an Agee hut?

Nietzsche

“The individual is, in his future and his past, a piece of fate, one law more, one necessity more for everything that is and everything that will be. To say to him ‘change yourself’ means to demand that everything should change, even in the past….”

“On the Sunny Side of the Street,”

“Pennies from Heaven,”

“A Kiss to Build a Dr...

Cairo, at least, people of both nationalities seemed only

It made Nadia unreasonably nervous to leave the two 16Ds behind and walk into a city; and she was not reassured once through the lock, when she saw that most people inside were wearing their walkers and carrying their helmets with them, ready for depressurization if it came.

I've been waiting for a Heinlein reference (besides Waldoes) and it looks like this is as close as we're going to get. Something right out of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

Frank shrugged. “The Group of Seven seems to be getting things under control.” He shook his head. “It’s hard to say from here, it really is.”

How different this book would be if we had the perspective of someone on Earth.

MANGALA.

Remember John's chant? The one with all tge ancient names of Mars. This is the Sanskrit one.

“Who’s this?” they cried. “Oh, we picked him up up there, he jumped off the elevator. He’s still a bit spaced. Hey,” she said to him with a smile, “we’re down, it’s okay.”

Now that is cool sci-fi!

glossolalia;

Very cool word!