re: Mars on NatGeo/Netflix

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... right out of the book "Red Mars." Has anyone read both books or the red mars and feel the same way?

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I finished the Mars Trilogy last year and yeah, it has some similarities to the first book, Red Mars, which is why a lot of people thought they might try to continue, or follow, with Green and Blue. Not sure that is going to happen though.

I think the other book you may be referring-to, perhaps, is How We’ll Live On Mars .... maybe? I dunno. I saw the Petranek lecture (TED) and he referenced the made for TV limited series and consulted for the show yet that may be an incorrect assumption on my part and, if so, I apologize.

From my perspective the TV series was a conglomeration of a lot of SciFi and studies over the years. It had a little bit of everything from The Martian Chronicles to The Case For Mars by Robert Durban (I can’t listen to the guy’s voice for long but he is the preeminent authority on the subject IMHO) and Turner’s Epic Poem, Genesis and so on.

Where they screwed the pooch and turned a lot of fans off by S3 was with the preachy stuff trying to correlate bad people on earth, having ruined earth, with the settlers on Mars trying to do something pristine and special.

I tried to look upon the series as a prequel to The Expanse ... it worked better for me that way, any way I looked at it from a human evolution and expansionist perspective.