In addition, Robinson has written a collection of short stories called The Martiansthat take place over the same period of time as the three novels in the trilogy. Lastly, with a wider scope than the first two books, Blue Marsexamines the long term effects of the colonization of Mars, with the book covering an entire century. Green Marspicks up thirty years later as the colony is terraforming the planet. The first novel, Red Mars, is about the settlement of a colony on Mars. What would happened if humans colonized Mars? Kim Stanley Robinson explores that idea in this series. By signing up you agree to our terms of use The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. What makes this novel all the more unsettling is how easy it is to imagine our world devolving into the place Atwood has imagined in her series. Only a few humans remain on Earth, fighting to survive. This trilogy, featuring the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam, is set in a dystopian future world that has been forever changed by plagues, floods, and genetic engineering. This is how Annihilation, the first book in the trilogy, begins. The 12th expedition is a group of women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist, and our narrator, a biologist. Expeditions into the area have proven unsuccessful, with the majority of the explorers dying. Area X is a remote location that’s been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. The series centers around Essun and her daughter Nassun, two magically talented people (orogenes) who are separated before the start of the most recent Fifth Season.Īlso known as The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanDerMeer’s Area X books are now available in one volume for your marathon reading convenience. The Fifth Season brings on disastrous climate change, and the people on the planet must struggle to survive. On a planet with a single supercontinent called The Stillness, the inhabitants endure what is called a “Fifth Season” every few centuries. Science Fiction The Broken Earth series by N.K. Now pick your favorite, pick a comfy reading spot, and get to your summer reading marathon ASAP! So, to make it a little easier for you, I’ve put together a list of some of the best book series for adults in every genre. With so many great books out there and so little time, it can be hard to know where to begin with book series. Try powering through your next favorite book series. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (She can be reached at All posts by Emily Martinįorget about spending your summer marathoning your favorite Netflix shows (again). Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor.
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