Kim Stanley Robinson’s series of novels about pioneering colonists of the Red Planet is being adapted for TV this could actually be great news,says James SmytheThe quest to find television’s science fiction respond to Game of Thrones might have finally come to cessation: Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic Mars trilogy is arrives on screens in 2017, reports Variety. With the first volume published to enormous critical acclaim and massive sales in 1993, and the three books – Red Mars,Green Mars (1994) and Blue Mars (1996) – have long been rumoured to be making the transition: the rights were once held by director James Cameron.
I first came across Robinson’s books when I was 14: I was on holiday, and somebody had left a copy of Red Mars in our hotel. I was reading books at a colossal rate, and when I ran out of Stephen Kings (an addiction well documented here),I turned to Robinson. Red Mars was the first “tough” science fiction novel – that is, sci-fi that deals with the science as much as the fiction – that I remember reading. Continue reading...
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