Green Mars depicts the fallout of a failed revolt, which has resulted in an underground separatist movement whose struggle for political freedom from Earth forms the bulk of the plot. This crystallizes into two major movements: the Reds, who want to limit terraforming and keep Mars as close to its natural state as possible, and the Greens, who want to fully terraform Mars into an Earth-like environment. However, they're almost immediately divided over the degree to which they should terraform, as well as how independent the new Martian society should be from Earth. The initial group of colonists, known as the 'First Hundred', are tasked with settling and ultimately terraforming the planet. Red Mars depicts the settlement of the first Martian colonies. The series is known for its accurate science, complex characters, realistic portrayals of politics and economics, and for its ultimately optimistic tone, shading towards a utopia rather than a dystopia.

It explores the settlement and subsequent terraforming of Mars over the course of nearly two centuries. The Red Mars trilogy is a series of novels by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson.

The day John Boone was assassinated we were up on east Elysium and it was morning and this meteor shower came raining down on us, there must have been thirty streaks or so and they were all black, I don't know what those meteorites were made of but they burned black instead of white.

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