I will update this preamble from time to time with links to awesome fan art or other documents. (Personal communication) Note that Carr’s work was based entirely on data from the Viking missions, launched in 1975. Paul Birch’s crazy proposals were fun and helpful, I could never have been as crazy as him.
book MARS from 1992 or so, updating the Carr with further analyses. The main sources were The Case For Mars conference papers, published by the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, and Martyn Fogg’s book Terraforming, and the NASA books on Mars, also Michael Carr’s book The Surface of Mars, a Viking era analysis- and the U. kml file to pinpoint physical locations discussed on Google Mars. It is my intention that people may read along with the books without fear!Įach chapter’s blog will also come with a downloadable. Like the podcast, this blog will contain spoilers but unless otherwise noted, only for the chapter under discussion or previous chapters. This project is indebted to the Marooned On Mars podcast, who have recorded detailed literary commentaries on many of KSR’s books, beginning with the Mars Trilogy. Remember, the books were published in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1999, largely predating Mars Pathfinder, MRO and the entire rover program. The purpose is to contrast the compelling and hauntingly beautiful description of a living planet imagined more than 30 years ago with the explosion of new knowledge we’ve enjoyed in the intervening decades, and to add the context of present day efforts by SpaceX and others to actually make this impossible vision an everyday reality. The purpose of this project isn’t to critique the author’s scientific accuracy, who by his own admission is an English major, although his wife and many friends are scientists.
I have also had the privilege to converse with Stan on a few occasions but I cannot pretend that my interpretation of his work is authoritative or even particularly literate. I don’t know how Mars settlement will actually progress, though I have written a few blogs about space-related topics, including a technical commentary on The Martian by Andy Weir. I have read it three or four times from end to end, in a both formative and conversational process whereby progressively more layers of understanding burrow into my psyche. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is, in my view, one of the finest works of literature ever composed. It is with some trepidation that I commence a project long anticipated and oft delayed.
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