Red Dust - Paul McAuley

Science fiction seems to have always had a special fascination with our closest neighbouring planetary body, at first postulating invasions of our own Earth by its hideous denizens and then, as fascination with the planet itself increased and real science showed indigenous life on Mars to be highly unlikely, depicting future versions of the world, colonised by humans, with trend-setters in this area including Dick’s ‘Martian Time-Slip’. Recently, however, the amount of fiction concerned with the red planet has seemed to increase out of all proportion, with the famous trilogy Red-Blue-Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson — reckoned, by some ...  Read the complete review