In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of mars: for eons, sandstorms have s...In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of mars: for eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate.