Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
10 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2008–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
Red Mars. Read a chapter and digest it. Packed top to bottom with all kinds of ideas.
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, followed by Blue Mars and Green Mars. These to me are the only ones not mentioned already and are set in an inspiring way that celebrates humanity.
These books gave me a very hopeful outlook for humanity's future.
Earnest Soviet economists try to solve the Russian economy with mathematical models running on computers. The story is told in a series of anecdotes, kind of similar to Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.
I enjoyed Red Mars but I really had to slog through Green Mars and Blue Mars. Red Mars was fun and interesting, but I could have done without a few hundred pages of Sax Russell talking about plants in Green Mars.
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