I’m looking for non-fiction about Mars, or possibly fiction that’s as educational as non-fiction. Please leave your suggestions!
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy/quadrology. KSR’s science fiction is built on a solid understanding of science, and the Mars books in particular involve a lot of speculation about technological development over the next 200 years that range from the extremely plausible (aerogels to construct habitat domes on Mars) to the eyebrow-raising (a shot that stops the aging process). Along with sorting out the plausible from the incredible, you pick up a lot of areology (like geology, only for Mars) and get nice depictions of the environmental and social justice problems our species is going to face over that same time span.
Of course the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. Red Mars is the best. And Total Recall is set on Mars, but they do have some interesting engineering ideas to solve the prob of living there. Ditto Babylon 5.
I know you’re looking for something in novel form, but NASA has a huge page of info. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/mars_worldbook.html
Not science fiction, and one hopes not science fantasy either, but a proposed vision of the near future which tells you a lot about the red planet in the process:
“The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must”, by Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin