In a scenario based on the colonization of our neighboring planet by corporate interests, discontent on the part of the second and third generations of the original colonists lays the groundwork for a revolution destined to last for decades. 30,000 first printing.
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In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that changes the future of Mars forever.
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Nebula Award winner Bear has long been known for novels of stunning scientific extrapolation and high literary quality from his early novel Blood Music to his more recent Queen of Angels . This new novel of Mars is his finest yet. Bear follows the unlikely career of Casseia Majumdar of the Majumdar Binding Multiple (a sort of cross between an extended family and a corporation) as she goes from lukewarm student activist to president of the fledgling Federal Republic of Mars. Beginning as a coming-of-age story, with Casseia encountering corruption as well as courage and determination in a student uprising, the narrative then becomes a fine, taut and realistic political novel, as Casseia travels to Earth as part of an ambassadorial retinue, and later serves as second in leader Ti Sandra's push for Martian unification. As conflict heats up between upstart Mars and Mother Earth, Bear introduces a wildly intriguing hard-science idea, and the novel spins into a tense science fiction thriller. Bear offers a fast-moving plot; realistic, appealing characters; a vividly imagined future Earth awash in "tailored microbes," nanotechnology and dirty dealing; and the most believable evocation of the workings of politics and science in any recent science fiction novel. It all adds up to a blowout of a book, perhaps the best of the recent Mars novels, and certainly one of the best sf novels of the year.
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This was a great read - could hardly put it down. It has everything a sci-fi fan could ask for and more!
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Moving Mars
Probably the best Science Fiction books I have read in years. Bear's fully imagined universe (not so, so, distant future) is simply amazing. He explains without getting lost in detail or glossing over key stuff. His New York of the future is a book in itself, never mind the complete and functional Mars he imagines. No puffy "terra forming" cop out for him, but realistic, hard scrabble living.
Key is his imagining of the future of nano technology, already being worked on in labs today, Bear puts his own spin on it. Fascinating stuff even if we are probably centuries away from the reality. Less clear are his "educational bacteria and virus" but that's ok.
The plot it not bad. It involves politics, but it is no Dune in those terms. I would guess that the political plot points are there to move the story along. The characters are all believable (even the bad guys have some dimension to them). The love life of the main folks seems a little thin, but hey, no room for everything!
One major problem I had was with the crucial plot point. Without giving too much away, to do what was done, even the first time, would in my mind create tremendous reactions on earth and mars. Neat idea but it strains credibility.
Still, a great read, lots of fun and well imagined.
By C. Baker
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The key failure of MM that greatly deterred my enjoyment of it is the flat characters and relationships. Bear's main character, Casseia, is a weak attempt at portraying not only a female character but a political power. It seems Bear attempted to give Cass a Heinlein-like, unassuming, brilliant, politician/scientist aura--but it falls flat. Completely flat. As does all his other attempts to describe human relationships. The personal interactions just did not seem real. FLAT seems to be the best word to describe them.
Bear's description of the political interactions also seemed flat. Here I refer to the entire build up of the Martian independence movement, the creation of the constitution, and the new government struggling to maintain power. The entire construct did not seem to fit very well and the evolution of this movement did not seem cogent. There just did not seem to be the kind of motivations necessary to sustain the impetus of the movement for a new government or a full explication of Earth's motivations in sujugating Mars. Further, while nanotechnology seems to be somewhat of a fad in SF these days, I felt the unexplained abilities nanotechnology in MM to be almost silly. And, even though the theory of the "descriptors" that were manipulated to change the "reality" of matter, by the end of the novel it seemed almost contrived.
So why did I give the novel 4 stars? I found I did enjoy reading the novel quite a bit.
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Thoughtful, intelligent book with parallels to real history
Enjoying "Moving Mars" will depend on a number of things, particularly your attitude about how a science fiction novel "ought" to be. Read more
Published on Jan 27 2004 by NoirDame, Vintage film/TV/radio writer & collector
4.0 out of 5 stars
Martian Revolution
This is quite a long book for a first-person narrative. Bear's other novels of comparable length feature half a dozen characters, but here we have only one - Casseia Majumdar,... Read more
Published on Aug 26 2003 by R. Sundquist
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not my kind of story but very well written!
STORY: As one editorial review nicely put: "a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. Read more
Published on July 25 2003 by Erik1988
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fine Read. Excellent Sci Fi
The only thing I did not throughly enjoy while reading this was (at the time) I thought Mr Bear had a pretty dim view of human ethics. Read more
Published on Jun 5 2003 by "mrmaps7"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable read
The book exemplifies the passion of human spirit for individualism and independence. Great read for the revolutionaries.
Published on Dec 23 2002
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Wow, what a future . . . !
A desert planet with an ancient history of very un-Earth-like life, a frontier world that mixes social conservatism and radical experimentation, this is Mars in the late 22nd... Read more
Published on Sep 16 2002 by Michael K. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars
excellent insight
In a book that starts quickly then settles in for a long buildup before finishing with a rush, Greg Bear tells the story of the political tensions that develop between an Earth... Read more
Published on Sep 7 2002 by Orrin C. Judd
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's all about the ideas
Fresh after reading Darwin's Radio, I decided to give Moving Mars a try. As many reviewers have mentioned, the first 200-300 pages of the book are slow and sometimes unbearably... Read more
Published on April 21 2002 by "shyambajuice"
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bear's best work, in fact it's downright awful
Greg Bear's MOVING MARS was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1993, sold well, and was acclaimed by some reviewers. Read more
Published on Mar 18 2002 by Christopher Culver
4.0 out of 5 stars
A fairly realistic future for the solar system
I can sum up my evaluation in two parts:
1) The Fiction
This novel begins with the main character somewhere in the middle of her college career. Read more
Published on Feb 20 2002 by Reviewer
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