The Greening of Mars

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1984
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The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist,  briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.

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1984

Publisher
André Deutsch
Place Published
London
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1984 Allaby, [John] Michael (b. 1933) and James  [Ephraim] Lovelock (1919-2022). The Greening of Mars. London: André Deutsch. U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984. L, Public

The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist,  briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.

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U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984.

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L, Public

Author Note

Allaby (b. 1933), Lovelock (1919-2022) was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.