title: Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet
author:  Leonard David 
description: "This big, welcoming bookbrimming with mind-revving photographs and artists conceptions and written with verve and precision by Davidprovides the foundation on which the scientifically rigorous, speculatively imaginative series was built." <i>Booklist</i><br /><br />"What a spectacular and captivating book. The text is expertlywritten, really engaging, and captures the optimism we all feel." Pascal Lee,Planetary Scientist, MarsInstitute
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  Blue
  
  \----------Mars
  
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  
  **PART ONE**
  
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  \---Peacock Mountain
  
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  Mars is free now. We're on our own. No one tells us what to do.
  
  Ann stood at the front of the train as she said this.
  
  But it's so easy to backslide into old patterns of behavior. Break one
  hierarchy and another springs up to take its place. We will have to be on
  guard for that, because there will always be people trying to make another
  Earth. The areophany will have to be ceaseless, an eternal struggle. We will
  have to think harder than ever before what it means to be Martian.
  
  Her listeners sat slumped in chairs, looking out the windows at the terrain
  flowing by. They were tired, their eyes were scoured. Red-eyed Reds. In the
  harsh dawn light everything looked new, the windswept land outside bare except
  for a khaki scree of lichen and scrub. They had kicked all Earthly power off
  Mars, it had been a long campaign, capped by a burst of furious action
  followin