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Kim Stanley Robinson. The Martians
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON. The Martians
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ONE MICHEL IN ANTARCTICA
TWO EXPLORING FOSSIL CANYON
THREE THE ARCHAEA PLOT
FOUR THE WAY THE LAND SPOKE TO US. 1. THE GREAT ESCARPMENT
2. FLATNESS
FIVE MAYA AND DESMOND. 1. FINDING HIM
2. HELPING HIM
3. HELPING HER
4. THE YEARS
5. HELPING HIM
6. LOSING HIM
SIX FOUR TELEOLOGICAL TRAILS. 1. WRONG WAY
2. MISTAKES CAN BE GOOD
3. YOU CAN’T LOSE THE TRAIL
4. THE NATURAL GENIUS
SEVEN COYOTE MAKES TROUBLE
EIGHT MICHEL IN PROVENCE
NINE GREEN MARS
TEN ARTHUR STERNBACH BRINGS THE CURVEBALL TO MARS
ELEVEN SALT AND FRESH
TWELVE THE CONSTITUTION OF MARS
THIRTEEN SOME WORKNOTES AND COMMENTARY ON THE CONSTITUTION,BY CHARLOTTE DORSA BREVIA. Preamble
FOURTEEN JACKIE ON ZO
FIFTEEN KEEPING THE FLAME
SIXTEEN SAVING NOCTIS DAM
SEVENTEEN BIG MAN IN LOVE
EIGHTEEN AN ARGUMENT FOR THE EPLOYMENT OF ALL SAFE TERRAFORMING TECHNOLOGIES
NINETEEN SELECTED ABSTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF AREOLOGICAL STUDIES
TWENTY ODESSA
TWENTY-ONE SEXUAL DIMORPHISM
TWENTY-TWO ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST
TWENTY-THREE WHAT MATTERS
TWENTY-FOUR COYOTE REMEMBERS
TWENTY-FIVE SAX MOMENTS
TWENTY-SIX A MARTIAN ROMANCE
TWENTY-SEVEN IF WANG WEI LIVED ON MARSand other poems. Visiting
After a Move
Canyon Colour
Vastitas Borealis
Night Song
Desolation
The Names of the Canals
Another Night Song
Six Thoughts on the Uses of Art
Crossing Mather Pass
Night in the Mountains
Invisible Owls
Tenzing
The Soundtrack
A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy
The Reds’ Lament
Two Years
I Say Goodbye to Mars
TWENTY-EIGHT PURPLE MARS
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But the postmodern structure of feeling might already have made them used to disconnection from Earth. Everyone inhabiting their own personal spaceship, carrying it mobile with them like a hermit crab’s shell, moving from one component of it to the next: home, office, car, plane, apartment, hotel room, mall. An indoor life, even a virtual life. How many hours a day did they spend in the wind? So that perhaps Mars would not feel very different.
As he considered these matters Michel wandered the big main room of Scott’s hut, looking at all the artifacts in the grey light. Scott had erected a wall of boxes to separate the officers and scientists from the common seamen. So many different facets; Michel felt his thoughts ricocheting this way and that.
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