#ElonMusk's #influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAD6oQZNcY

"#Multinational corporations have grown so large as a result of #globalization that they have sufficient economic power to take over or strongly manipulate national #governments, continually attempting to take over competitors in order to become the sole controller of the #interplanetary market" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy#Corporations

#MarsTrilogy #ScienceFiction #Transnats

Even as a child, I've always had a SERIOUS philosophical bent. Thankfully, Ive also always been suffused with an overwhelming skepticism of LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I only started reading philosophical & religious texts within the last couple of years, and boy am I glad I ignored the shit out of them until now.
Folks talking about "the war on terror" or communism, and I'm just over here like:
"Hiroko Ai lives!"
#Philosophy #Skepticism #Scifi #MarsTrilogy #Bookstodon

@andrealuck
Bennett's designs are by far the best I've found for #KSR's Mars novels, but are now hard to locate in the internets. Here's another one I've saved on disk several years ago:

#MarsTrilogy

@andrealuck
Here is William Bennett's concept of asteroid Clarke which was used as the ballast for the Space Elevator in Kim Stanley Robinson's #MarsTrilogy. In the novels, Phobos was also made a military base or something, which had a unique architectural design, IIRC.

Bennett has had some other interesting ideas about Mars colonies, equipment etc.

#KSR

I finally did it! I read all 1688 pages of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. By turns epic and intimate in scale, and as committed to the political, psychological and ontological aspects of the endeavour to make life flourish on Mars as it is to the incredibly detailed science.

This ‘96 NY Times review of the final book in the trilogy sums up the books’ achievements very well and without spoilers.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/books/science-fiction.html

#sci-fi #mars #marstrilogy #books #kimstanleyrobinson

@0xc00000e9 the Red/Green/Blue #MarsTrilogy of course! Less far-future than The Expanse, and even more focused on political change.

Also, that candidate cave is kind of close to the (fictional) town Arena, from Kim Stanley Robinson's #MarsTrilogy. Of course the vast majority of candidate caves is in the vicinity of (also fictional Martian towns) Sheffield and Nicosia.

Here are some maps I made, showing places mentioned in #KSR's novels re Mars: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/109212732193671405

@tom30519 #SciFi #Mars

And the South Pole:

#Mars #MarsTrilogy #Space

Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.

So, here are 4 Mercator and 1 polar maps showing cities, places and plot info, created while I was reading the novels. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/USGS-PlanetMars-TopographicalMap.png

Suggestions and corrections (with references) are welcome!

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #Space #Mars