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25 Years of Spectra: RED MARS (1993) by Kim Stanley Robinson


One of Spectra’s Nebula Award winners for Best Novel, Red Mars was the beginning of the award-winning and critically acclaimed Mars Series by Kim Stanley Robinson, establishing Stan as one of the great new science fiction writers of the late 20th Century (and, clearly with his most recent novel, Galileo’s Dream, the 21st Century, too).
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Galileo’s Dream — 400 Years Later


Four hundred years ago, a stranger from northern Europe told Galileo Galilei about the idea of the telescope. In a matter of days, Galileo had figured out the basic principles of such a device by testing lenses in pairs until he got a magnified image of objects at a distance. After that, he [...]

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