Moving Mars

I was surprised by this book. It's yet another Martian epic, this time by one of the masters of hard sci fi. I didn't think I'd like it, as I feel Mars-ed out. But I really liked it, after a fashion. I hard a hard time staying interested in the first half of the book, but suddenly, I found myself engrossed and involved with the plot. It's a very political book, featuring the attempts of Mars colonists to form a central government from the self-ruled family-based syndicates that had developed, a move that threatens the three mega-nations of Earth. By the end, I realized that what I thought was an excruciatingly slow build-up was necessary to set the scene for the fast-paced second half. I'm glad I stuck with it. This book won the Nebula Award for 1994 and was nominated for several others, including the Hugo. Interestingly enough, it beat Robinson's Green Mars for the Nebula, but lost to it for the Hugo.

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