Red Mars spotlighted
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is being featured by the New Scientist Book Club this month, putting classic Mars hard‑SF back into conversation for readers hungry for planetary realism (bode-living.com). The highlight ties into renewed interest in Mars narratives as film and publishing cycles circle the planet (bode-living.com).
Kim Stanley Robinson contributed a first‑person piece to New Scientist on 27 March 2026 in which he explicitly called the idea of emigrating to Mars “bullshit.” (newscientist.com) New Scientist published an extract from Red Mars and a companion feature titled “Why Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on,” both dated 27 March 2026. (newscientist.com 1) (newscientist.com 2) Red Mars was first published in 1992 and the Mars trilogy’s internal timeline opens in the year 2026, a coincidence New Scientist highlights in its extract. (en.wikipedia.org) (newscientist.com) New publishing this month includes Charlotte Robinson’s thriller Mars One, which New Scientist lists among its “best new science‑fiction books of April 2026.” (newscientist.com) On the screen side, the animated feature Mars from comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know has been slated for a 2026 theatrical and home‑video rollout, marking a separate Mars‑set release in the current media cycle. (comicon.com) Industry interest in adapting Robinson’s Mars books goes back years: Deadline reported in January 2015 that Spike TV had tapped J. Michael Straczynski to write a Red Mars series with producer Vince Gerardis attached. (deadline.com)
