Title: Blue Mars Title Record # 265
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Date: 1996-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Series Number: 3
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Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations

Year Language Title 1997 Serbian Plavi Mars 1 [as by Kim Stenli Robinson] 1997 Serbian Plavi Mars 2 [as by Kim Stenli Robinson] 1997ⓘTranslated by Ana Quijada Vargas Spanish Marte azul 1997ⓘTranslated by Dominique Haas French Mars la Bleue 1998ⓘTranslated by Ewa Wojtczak Polish Błękitny Mars?Blekitny Mars 1999ⓘTranslated by Winfried Petri and Eva Torhorst. German Blauer Mars 2001ⓘTranslated by 蔡梵谷 (Cai Fangu) Chinese 蓝火星?Lán huǒxīng Lan Huoxing [as by 金·史丹利·羅賓遜?Jīn Shǐdānlì Luóbīnxùn Jin Shidanli Luobunxun ] 2015ⓘTranslated by Emil Sârbulescu Romanian Marte albastru 2017ⓘTranslated by Annarita Guarnieri Italian Il blu di Marte 2017ⓘ Simplified Chinese translation copyright © 2017 by Beijing Alpha Books Co., Inc. Translated by 蔡梵谷 Chinese 蓝火星?Lán huǒxīng Lan Huoxing [as by 金·斯坦利·罗宾逊?Jīn Sītǎnlì Luóbīnxùn Jin Sitanli Luobinxun ]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1996 BSFA	Best Novel
Nominations Below Cutoff	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
1	1997 Hugo	Best Novel
1	1997 Locus	Best SF Novel
2	1997 Campbell Memorial	Best Science Fiction Novel
Nomination	1997 SF Chronicle	Novel
Finalists	1997 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel
4 (as Marte azul)	1999 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Blue Mars	1996-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-00-224315-6	£9.99?£: UK pound	616	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Peter Elson
Blue Mars	1996-04-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager	0-246-13883-1	£15.99?£: UK pound	[10]+ 616+ [10]	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Peter Elson
Blue Mars	1996-07-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-10144-7	$22.95?$: US dollar	609	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1996-09-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	The Easton Press (Signed First Editions of Science Fiction #102)	106-102		609	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Blue Mars	1996-10-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra / SFBC	13941	$10.98?$: US dollar	671	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1997-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1997-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1997-04-07	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-586-21391-0	£6.99?£: UK pound	[10]+ 789	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Peter Elson
Blue Mars	1997-07-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1999-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1999-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	1999-12-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-586-21391-0	£6.99?£: UK pound	787	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Blue Mars	2001-10-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager Classics / HarperCollins (Voyager Classics #16)	0-00-712165-2	£7.99?£: UK pound	800	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Blue Mars	2002-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Recorded Books	1-4025-1512-X			audio cassette?Cassette tape	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	2009-08-06	Kim Stanley Robinson	HarperVoyager	978-0-00-731018-0	£8.99?£: UK pound	787	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kees Veenenbos
Blue Mars	2013-04-11	Kim Stanley Robinson	Harper Voyager (UK)	978-0-00-740217-5	£6.05?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Blue Mars	2016-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	978-0-553-57335-0	$8.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	2017-00-00	Kim Stanley Robinson	Del Rey	978-0-553-57335-0	$8.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jeff Miller
Blue Mars	2021-11-23	Kim Stanley Robinson	Del Rey	978-0-593-35885-6	$18.00?$: US dollar	800	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$7.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Voyager / HarperCollins	0-586-21391-0	£6.99?£: UK pound	[10]+ 789	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Peter Elson
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$8.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$7.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	HarperVoyager	978-0-00-731018-0	£8.99?£: UK pound	787	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kees Veenenbos
Blue Mars	date unknown	Kim Stanley Robinson	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57335-7	$6.99?$: US dollar	761	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Don Dixon

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Reviews

• Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #421 February 1996
• Review by James Lovegrove (1996) in Interzone, #106 April 1996 , reprinted in:
•     Lifelines and Deadlines: Selected Nonfiction (2015)
• Review by Russell Letson (1996) in Locus, #425 June 1996
• Review [Spanish] by Pedro Jorge Romero (1996) in BEM, #51, June-July 1996
• Review by Michael Bishop (1996) in Science Fiction Age, July 1996 , reprinted in:
•     A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction (2005)
•     A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction (2005)
• Review by L. J. Hurst (1996) in Vector 189
• Review by Mark L. Olson (1996) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1996
• Review by Joe Mayhew (1996) in Absolute Magnitude, Winter 1996
• Review by Stephen Baxter (1996) in Foundation, #68 Autumn 1996
• Review [French] by
  Henri Lœvenbruck^?Henri Loevenbruck
  (1997) in Galaxies, #4
• Review by Norman Spinrad (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1997
• Review [German] by Michael Matzer (1998) in Science Fiction Media, #134 Frühjahr 1998
• Review [German] by Michael Conrad (2000) in Alien Contact, Nummer 37
• Review by Simon Ingrouille (2009) in StarShipSofa, No 64