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["Scott Hitchins" <ScottH@wcig.org.au>]

I think it's called "The Martians"

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From: Gaden@ziplip.com [mailto:Gaden@ziplip.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2003 2:25 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy


Re: Russ Grayson's - "A contemporary SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, has 
produced a compilation of ecotopian writing that is currently in the 
bookshops - sorry, don't recall the title. He wrote the Mars trilogy (Red 
Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) which, while in the SF genre, explore the 
terraformation of the planet to make it habitable for humankind."

I heartily endorse Robinson's Mars series. Though within a SF framework, 
these books introduce many concepts of alternative economic systems, 
alternative community structures,and decision making processes. Alternative 
monetary/currency/barter systems. Extensively examines the many different 
forms of ecopolitics. 

Though these works are obviously fictional, they have been exhaustively 
researched and based on actual systems/idealogies. These books gave me many 
weeks of internet research as I followed up on various, sometimes obscure 
idealogies mentioned within the story. And if all that wasn't enough, they 
are a damn good read for the story alone. Good long-distance travel reading 
material.

Gaiden
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