Status Updates From Красный Марс (Марс #1)

“Science was many things … including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”

“Earth is a perfectly liberal world. But half of it is starving, and always has been, and always will be. Very liberally.”

Idk how but it keeps managing to make the most trivial of conflicts and disagreements interesting even though the characterization is very similar among the spread of colonists as opposed to unique and emotional. Maybe it’s just that I’m a nerd for Mars and the psychological effects of colonizing it. The arguments about whether native life would be disrupted by terraformation are particularly interesting.