“The Expanse” Brings to Life Kim Stanley Robinson’s Visions of Mars

Jonathan Logan
The Shadow
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10 min readApr 5, 2021

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To terraform or not to terraform? It doesn’t matter when you can rely on good sci-fi to envision it all.

The Similarity in Approach

The Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson’s (KSR) fictional series on the colonization of the Red Planet, is the ultimate glimpse into what Mars could look like in both physical and sociocultural terms after human occupation. The trilogy consists of three books: Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. Each one…

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Jonathan Logan
The Shadow

Hopelessly in search of what is more, of how things could be different :(