Red Mars Trilogy: Difference between revisions

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Sax in ''Green Mars''. Once the revolution finally breaks out, it turns out he had spent the preceding years preparing for a number of large-scale contingencies, including making possible the open-air evacuation of an entire city by having raised the oxygen levels in the atmosphere and making tens of thousands of carbon dioxide filter masks.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Subverted. The idea is proposed to set up thousands of windmill-powered heaters to warm the Martian atmosphere. It's obvious to any climate scientist that even ''millions'' of such heaters could never have an appreciable effect. However, it turns out that this was just a [[Red Herring]] and it was actually part of a plot to seed the planet with incubators for genetically-engineered bacteria that would assist in the terraforming process.

** However, it does get (slightly) better by the time we see it close-up in ''Blue Mars''.

* [[The Fog of Ages]]: In ''Blue Mars'' it becomes clear that this is a possible side-effect of the longevity treatment, as the extremely long-lived main characters begin to forget things they did when they were in their ''100's''. Eventually {{spoiler|a cure for this is found that not only reverses the effect but also reinforces all the previous memories the person has, including memories from their childhood they normally didn't remember anyway}}.

* [[The War of Earthly Aggression]]: ''Red Mars'' leads up to a failed rebellion against Earth; ''Green Mars'' is about a successful one. ''Blue Mars'' features a war that, while brief, is primarily resolved through what amounts to hugging.

* [[Zeppelins From Another World]] - airships are the main form of air travel on Mars, right from the beginning.

 

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