“It would be a kind of reward for our success-we could think of it in the way my novel thinks of it, as an interesting place worth exploring more. If we were to create a sustainable civilisation here on Earth, with all Earth’s creatures prospering, then and only then would Mars become even the slightest bit interesting to us,” Robinson says in an interview with Farsight.
My Mars trilogy is a good novel but not a plan for this moment. We should of course concentrate on maintaining the habitability of the Earth. It may come as a surprise to some, then, that Robinson recently seemed to rebuke all this and declare Mars irrelevant in the year 2022. Through it all, and despite the decline of Earth thanks to various environmental and political disasters, military conflicts with Terran forces, and political tensions sparked by waves of migration from Earth, the series is truly hopeful and optimistic not just about humanity’s future but the role Mars might play in it.
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