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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Description: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) details the initial colonization of Mars, focusing on the arrival of the First Hundred settlers and the events leading to the First Martian Revolution. It serves as the opening novel in a three-part series by Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN: 0553560735
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The "destruction of mars" for the purposes of resource exploitation is a major theme in KSR Mars books[0]. Although the actual evil of resource exploitation and terraforming on Mars is highly debated in the books, with many perspectives represented.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0...