Title: Good sci-fi decends into bad politics
Product review: Red Mars started off just dandy, with a variety of characters (a bit too one-dimensional, but hey) struggling with how to best colonize Mars. No one was a 'good' guy or a 'bad' guy - just good hard sci-fi mixed with honest ideological differences.Halfway through the book, however, it all changed. All of a sudden, Trans-national corporations are launching nukes, after buying out the United Nations. Christian fundamentalists try to dominate the colonies. A few hundred scientists on Mars discover wildly optimistic technologies, while the billions of people on Earth decend into chaos, primarily because of those darn evil trans-nationals.What started out as a balanced and interesting book jumped clear off the left end. I'll only read the sequels because I want to read all the Hugo and Nebula award winners - not because I have any hope for the rest of the series.
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