Kim Stanley Robinson 
Red Mars 

Another timeless masterpiece in the Voyager Classics series Mars — the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists — hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert — Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing… for civilization can be very uncivilized.