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Contents
Title page
Map
Chapter 1: Michel in Antarctica
Chapter 2: Exploring Fossil Canyon
Chapter 3: Archaea Plot
Chapter 4: The Way the Land Spoke to Us
Chapter 5: Maya and Desmond
Chapter 6: Four Teleological Trails
Chapter 7: Discovering Life
Chapter 8: Coyote Makes Trouble
Chapter 9: Michel in Provence
Chapter 10: Green Mars
Chapter 11: Arthur Sternbach Bringsthe Curveball to Mars
Chapter 12: Salt and Fresh
Chapter 13: The Constitution of Mars
Chapter 14: Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia
Chapter 15: Jackie on Zo
Chapter 16: Keeping the Flame
Chapter 17: Saving Noctis Dam
Chapter 18: Big Man in Love
Chapter 19: An Argument for the Deployment of All Safe Terraforming Technologies
Chapter 20: Selected Abstracts from The Journal of Areological Studies
Chapter 21: Odessa
Chapter 22: Sexual Dimorphism
Chapter 23: Enough Is As Good As a Feast
Chapter 24: What Matters
Chapter 25: Coyote Remembers
Chapter 26: Sax Moments
Chapter 27: The Names of the Canals
Chapter 28: The Soundtrack
Chapter 29: A Martian Romance
Chapter 30: If Wang Wei Lived on Marsand Other Poems
Chapter 31: Purple Mars
About the Author
Books by Kim Stanley Robinson
Praise for Kim Stanley Robinson
Copyright Page
 
Michel in Antarctica
At first it was fine. The people were nice. Wright Valley was awesome. Each day Michel woke in his cubicle and looked out his little window (everyone had one) at the frozen surface of Lake Vanda, a flat oval of cracked blue ice, flooding the bottom of the valley. The valley itself was brown and big and deep, its great rock sidewalls banded horizontally. Seeing it all, he felt a little thrill and the day began well.
There was always a lot to do. They had been dropped there in the largest of the Antarctic dry valleys with a load of disassembled huts and, for immediate occupancy, Scott tents. Their task through the perpetual day of the Antarctic summer was to build their winter home, which on assembly had turned out to be a fairly substantial and luxurious modular array of interconnected red boxes. In many ways it seemed analogous to what the voyagers would be doing when they arrived on Mars, and so of course to Michel it was all very interesting.
There were 158 people there, and only a hundred were going to be sent on the first trip out, to establish a permanent colony. This was the plan as designed by the Americans and Russians, who had then convened an international team to implement it. So this stay in Antarctica was ............

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