Green Mars

Extract: I think it was a mistake to read "Green Mars" right after "Red Mars". Reading two massive tomes about the Martian landscape one after the other became a little tedious. The books are structured the same. The saga of living on Mars is told from a different character's perspective per chapter. Where the first book was more about the colonization of Mars, this book's plot is the terraforming the planet and the formation of an independent Martian government. Some action and characterization takes place, but once again, the primary focus is tons and tons and tons of descriptions of the environment. Instead of actors chewing the scenery, the scenery does the chewing....