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  • The New World on Mars

  • What We Can Create on the Red Planet
  • By: Robert Zubrin
  • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
  • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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The New World on Mars

By: Robert Zubrin
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
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When Robert Zubrin published his classic book The Case for Mars a quarter century ago, setting foot on the Red Planet seemed a fantasy. Today, manned exploration is certain, and as Zubrin affirms in The New World on Mars, so too is colonization.

We will settle on Mars, and with our knowledge of the planet, analyzed in depth by Dr. Zubrin, we will utilize the resources and tackle the challenges that await us. What we will we build? Populous Martian city-states producing air, water, food, power, and more. Zubrin's Martian economy will pay for necessary imports and generate income from varied enterprises, such as real estate sales—homes that are airtight and protect against cosmic space radiation, with fish-farm aquariums positioned overhead, letting in sunlight and blocking cosmic rays while providing fascinating views. Zubrin even predicts the Red Planet customs, social relations, and government that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw Earth immigrants.

With all of this in place, Zubrin's Red Planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars, and beyond. We can create this magnificent future, making life better, less fatalistic. The New World on Mars proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces and limited resources when, together, we can create planets.

©2024 Robert Zubrin (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Rational

Good philosophy behind it, plus solid socioeconomic thinking. A must read for anyone interested in space colonization

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Get out your Geek and go to Mars!

There is something for everyone in this book: technology, history, politics, adventure and self-realization. After reading this book the phrase, "Be all that you can be." has new meaning! Let's do it!

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good but biased


Very good book of the basics of how and why we can and maybe should go to mars, would be enlightening to someone who's not already knows a bit about it, and even so I learned stuff.
I haven't finished it BUT so far he is extremely favorable towards going (obviously)... almost to the point of fantasy.
He so far (halfway through) hasn't said any negatives such as the effects of radiation, bone mass, and the general insane difficulty, His main plan of inventions being the reason people go and stay is also weak.
He even says on page 1! mars has " an atmosphere thick enough to shield against solar flares" that is essentially technically true I guess but that's not an important i issue and he says that just to make people feel as if it is more hospitable then it really is.
Also his idea on a wild west type mining community from astroids is kinda wacky, robots will do it.

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The Deuterium Mining Economics

An inspirating and motivating detailed view of our future not only on Mars but beyond.

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Adds Nothing to Prior Books

I enjoyed Zubrin's earlier Mars books, particularly his ideas on transportation logistics and the chemistry of terraforming. This book adds nothing useful and takes a very long time to do it. It's mostly highschool-level rambling about possible Mars social customs with a handful of semi-technical summaries of dome construction techniques thrown in for good measure. Frankly, it reads as if he couldn't afford to hire an editor.

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Author's Rendition of Earth on Mars

would not recommend, the information is highly hypothetical and a wish list of how things should work.

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This is Less About Mars Than it is About Trite Politics

I like Bob Zubrin. I remember reading his book about Mars decades ago. But this book has little about Mars than it is about Zubrin’s view of politics. I like his libertarianism, but he seems to think that everyone on Mars will be libertarian and allows for no other possibility. This book reads like a college sophomore discussing how things ought to be rather than anything interesting about life on the red planet. I couldn’t even finish it. Very boring. Only made it 2/3 through.

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