A review by compostbin
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

🥹definitely my favorite book of the trilogy. Was so hopeful and the character growth was so lovely. I want to live in this world, and I feel like KSR has charted a path toward it. The people felt so real and I was rooting for them so hard, even in their imperfections. Still not the biggest fan of how women are written? Or at least how they’re written some of the time? I think in general, there was just such a gendered way of being, though maybe that was intentional re: the conversation between michel and maya about the seemingly androgynous nature of most young natives. Not all of it was self aware though lol, the Zo-Sax sex scene? TRULY bizarre. I can’t wait to reread and in the meantime continue percolating on all the themes in the book. Sooo good.