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Sacrifice, revolution, the promise of freedom. These flood into the life of Casseia Majumdar, daughter of the Binding Multiples. Rebelling against her conservative family, the colonists who occupy Mars, Casseia takes part in the brewing revolution sparked by student protests in the year 2171. Meanwhile, her love life is in a very precarious situation, with her beloved Charles Franklin's seeking to merge his mind with the most advanced artificial mind.

Moving Mars is a science-fiction look at love and war, family and conviction, heart and mind . . .

Praise for Moving Mars

"If anyone is the complete master of the grand-scale sf novel, it's Bear. . . . [Moving Mars] is also told extremely well with nothing lacking in either scientific soundness or literary excellence."
—Booklist

"Bear offers a fast-moving plot; realistic, appealing characters; a vividly imagined future Earth awash in 'tailored microbes,' nanotechnology and dirty dealing; and the most believable evocation of the workings of politics and science in any recent science fiction novel. It all adds up to a blowout of a book, perhaps the best of the recent Mars novels, and certainly one of the best sf novels of the year."
—Publishers Weekly

"Revolution is not a new concept as colonies grow more independent from their mother countries. Bear . . . uses this scenario . . .with great success."
—Library Journal

"Greg Bear's Moving Mars dramatizes life in a young society struggling against both a powerful Earth and the rigors of its own inhospitable world. Long, epic in sweep, and scrupulous in its details regarding the nature of Mars and the difficulties in settling the planet. . . . The novel's best moments involve Bear's ingenious biological and physical speculations, which do not simply color the narrative but (it is one of Bear's characteristic strengths) shape and inform its texture."
—The Washington Post

"Bear's Mars is one of the most vividly realized of the recent body of areological novels . . . He has the gift of implying a whole background with high-resolution but subtly-signaled background details, again built into the language of the milieu rather than in more obtrusive devices."
—Locus

"Moving Mars is an accomplished, thoroughly mature novel that should be placed at the top of anyone's 'to be read' stack."
—Science Fiction Age

"Mars fans are in for a real treat with the publication of Moving Mars by Greg Bear. A young Martian scientist makes an astounding discovery that plays a key element in the deteriorating relationship between Earth and its colony. After a deceptively slow start in which Mr. Bear sows the seeds of his piquant premise with delicate precision, this grand adventure in hard science fiction surges forward to a powerful resolution."
—Romantic Times

"Greg Bear is a writer's writer, and Moving Mars is another winner. It's chock full of physics, metaphysics, nano-biology and gritty politics, set amid a dazzling high-tech 22^nd century cold war between Earth and Mars. This is as good as hard science fiction gets."
—Portland Oregonian

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 1993 by Greg Bear.

Originally published by Tor Books.

A DailyLit Edition in association with E-Reads.

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About the Author

Greg Bear, author of over 25 books which have been translated into 17 languages, has won science fiction's highest honors and is considered the natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke. The recipient of two Hugos and four Nebulas for his fiction, he has been called "the best working writer of hard science fiction" by The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. He is married to Astrid Anderson, daughter of science fiction great Poul Anderson, and they are the parents of two children, Erik and Alexandria. His most recent novel, Dead Lines, was published by Ballantine in 2004.

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Opening Lines (Experimental)

A day on Mars is a little longer than a day on Earth: 24 hours and 40 minutes. A year on Mars is less than two Earth years: 686 Earth days, or 668 Martian days. Mars is 6,787 kilometers in diameter, compared to Earth's 12,756 kilometers. Its gravitational acceleration is 3.71 meters per second ...

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Copyright

Copyright 1993 by Greg Bear.

All Rights Reserved.

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