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Moving Mars: A Novel Paperback – December 15, 1994

by Greg Bear (Author)

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December 15, 1994
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4.25 x 1.5 x 6.75 inches
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Science Fiction (December 15, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812524802
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812524802
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.5 x 6.75 inches

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Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books, spanning thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy, including Blood Music, Eon, The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio, City at the End of Time, and Hull Zero Three. His books have won numerous international prizes, have been translated into more than twenty-two languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Over the last twenty-eight years, he has also served as a consultant for NASA, the U.S. Army, the State Department, the International Food Protection Association, and Homeland Security on matters ranging from privatizing space to food safety, the frontiers of microbiology and genetics, and biological security.

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Perhaps the best hard science fiction novel published in the past 30 years

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2021

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Moving Mars is the first-person story of Casseia Majumdar, who over the decades goes from college student to eventually leader of the Federal Republic of Mars. It is set in a universe of complex, suspicious relationships between Mars, the Moon, and Earth, and these relationships that grow so toxic that it becomes an existential crisis for all.

The characters are complex and believable, but this is not what makes Moving Mars unique. All hard science fiction extrapolates known science to make a technically accurate story, projecting possible future technology from science we know today. This includes sentient computers, regular interplanetary travel, and fusion reactors found in the works of authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and countless others.

Much more rarely does one see a dramatization of a future with an unfolding new world-changing and paradigm-shifting development. Bell Continuum theory, several steps beyond today’s quantum mechanics, is a civilization-changing breakthrough upon which major plot points (and in fact, the title of the book) depend. One feels like a scientifically-literate person from Isaac Newton’s time who got a glimpse of relativity and quantum mechanics in broad brushstrokes and was also told about both the wonderful and terrifying implications.

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Thomas Erickson

Great imagination. Moving Mars 10,000 light years. Flight against Earth

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2010

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I'm a huge Mars fan and life member of the Mars Society so I was interested in this Sci Fi book.

Greg Bear is a well known excellent Sci Fi writer who has won many awards. Moving Mars is a good book but could easily of been a great book ( Its NOT as good as Kim Stanley Robinson's 5 star trilogy Red,Green,Blue Mars) but still a good book

The first part of the book is great( 5 stars) as we see the star character Casseia Majumdar and her friend Charles Franklin as students on Mars. Charles shows Casseia an incredible fossil grotto and there is a fight between the corrupt Mars Government and the students. Good Sci Fi stuff.

However the next 150 pages or so to me were time locked in boring Mars/Earth political crap. I know Greg used this to build up his characters which he does well but it was kind of boring explaining the Mars system of government.This part was kind of slow and boring. We see the Triplet of occupied Moon, Mars and Earth that have commerce with each other and the asteroid "belters".

Charles and the other "Olympians" ( deep thinking scientists with the help of super advanced "thinkers"( computers) develope fantastic technology. Based on achieving absolute zero they are able to arrange matter transfer. However Earth learns this and is afraid of Mars as they could have a super weapon. Earth attacks Mars using covert hidden"locust destroyers" and sabotaging their computer and surveillance systems. Many martians killed. But Mars fights back by sending their moon Phobos into earth orbit and saying cease and desist or we will attack. Earth governments are terrorized by the new Earth moon Phobos and stop their attack.

A little later Earth develops the same technology as the Mars "Olympians" and attacks Mars.

Now Vice President Casseia of the Mars Republic becomes President as President Ti Sandra Erzul is badly injured from the Earth attack and later is killed. Mars is getting wiped out and Casseia dos not want to attack Earth with Charles Franklin and the Olympians technology and kill billions of people. She orders Franklin with the help of the "thinkers" and devices to move Mars ten thousand light years more toward the Galactic center to evade Earth so Earth won't track Mars down and destroy it.

I wont ruin the ending for you. The last 150 pages or so are really great Sci Fi ( 5 star). I just wish Greg Bear got to the good stuff quicker and the reader did not have to plow through 1/3 of a slow paced middle book. Moving Mars could of easily been a 5 star book and Greg Bear shows he is capable of a complete 5 star book. I look forward to reading other books by him.

Moving Mars a good 4 star book with a 5 star beginning and ending but a 3 star middle. Worth buying. I enjoyed it.

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Frank Watson - Writer

Just as Good as the SF Classics

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018

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This book was a tonic to this long-time science fiction fan: MOVING MARS by Greg Bear is epic in scope and with a sense of wonder to rival the classics. Bear incorporates classic SF ideas such as colonizing the moon and Mars as well as concepts from quantum physics. (I guess. I never could follow Dr. Asimov’s math in his popular science writings, so quantum physics – and speculations extrapolating from that – are far beyond me. I’ll take Bear at his word.)

While incorporating sufficient “nuts and bolts” for the hard core SF fan, Bear also engages us in human drama. He explores politics and culture as shaped by the realities of the extrapolated future. He also addresses age-old tangles of love and relationships. In the future, as now and in the past, it is almost impossible to get right.

The “moving Mars” of the title involves (and I don’t think this requires a spoiler alert) using cutting edge science to move Mars, which is threatened with extinction by Earth political forces, to a safer place thousands of light-years distant. In true classic SF tradition, this seemingly impossible feat is shepherded by a small group of brilliant scientists while the clock is ticking down to the end of the world (as the Martians knew it).

I find it a brilliant idea executed brilliantly. Published in 1993, it won the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel. I believe that to be a well-deserved honor.

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Hard sci fi that explores socio-political issues on galactic scale

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2018

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This is the story of Casseia Majumdar, President of Mars, and her friends and lovers, who fight Earth for survival. One of her lovers, a scientist, discovers the cosmic information matrix that regulates the universe. By changing the information in this matrix, the scientist moves the entire planet thousands of light years away in minutes, to escape from Earth’s tyranny. Greg Bear’s talent is to found his fantasies on some kernel of scientific plausibility, so that his flights of fancy generally feel grounded. The description of Mar’s ecology is the best part of the book. The socio-political parts are sometimes interesting but dry, as they are described from outside rather than through the experiences of the characters. Likewise, the characters have interesting things happen to them but, because they have no inferiority, their evolution is also described from outside, and thus not felt by the reader. It’s a long book that often drags. Ideal for fast reading and skimming, and an enjoyable experience if you reach the end.

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Steve Betts

Amazing hard Science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2023

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If i had read "Queen of Hearts first I would never have bothered with "Moving Mars". I've just read it again and its brilliant! I would propose you read the series in a different order as i did. 2-3-1.

yoda

Very unique and awe inspiring

Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2018

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What an idea! To be able to move a whole planet so far away instantaneously! What an original way to think of a possible unifying theory of physics. I am going to think about descriptors for a very long time :-) Interesting mix of politics and physics - a very original and unique read.

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Mr C

A tour de force

Reviewed in Australia on June 7, 2017

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I have read some of Greg Bear's work before but it did not impact on me like this book. I suspect that I have simply grown into his work and I will need to revisit his catalogue. Essentially a love story, it weaves conceptual physics with politics and well-imagined worlds. Well worth a read.

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DON LEITIS

Good read

Reviewed in Australia on July 23, 2017

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Some annoying editing errors such as 'many' used instead of 'marry', 'aims' instead of 'arms' and was a little slow getting started but perseverance made for a good read in the last half of the book. Some interesting concepts with an accurate portrayal of the human psyche.

Bent A

Slowly builtup but turns out to be very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2014

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Master science fiction writer Greg Bear knows his business. This novel is not as dazzling as Eon and Eternity (in my view among the best science fiction ever written), and it is quite slow in built up, but it leads to an exciting story. Written from a woman's point of view (maybe he should have chosen to write it from a man's point of view – I at least would not have dared to do so) I wonder how credible women will experience this. The science is dazzling, true enough. It is the kind of story that makes you wonder what would happen if human kind ever were able to discover such physical principles and invent such a technology. Would it lead to the end of mankind?

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