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Why Elon Musk's Mars Vision Needs 'Some Real Imagination'
Mars chronicler Kim Stanley Robinson offers some pointers on the road to the red planet.
Elon Musk Reveals Plan for a City on Mars
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When Elon Musk introduced earthlings last month to his vision for cities on Mars, his 90-minute remarks fired up imaginations everywhere—except on Mars. For now.
Kim Stanley Robinson has done as much as anyone to bring the idea of colonizing Mars into the mainstream. The writer entwined knowledge, reasoning, and imagination into his landmark Mars trilogy—Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996).