Masks
Like a bunch of really good actors, the characters in Red Mars wear different masks to present one persona while hiding another. Unlike really good actors, though—who can go from being zombies to...
Red/Green
The characters in Red Mars are always yammering on about the colors red and green. It's always how red the Martian landscape can be or how green their homebrewed algae are. Does no one take the tim...
Tools and Tech
If there's one person who knows the what's what on Mars, it's Nadia. We know this because the first thing she does when she gets there is gather some tools. Lots and lots of tools:Backhoes, front l...
Transnationals
The transnationals, or transnats, are the multinational corporations of the future. This means they're just like the corporations we have today, but about a million times more powerful. We're not e...
Genetics
Red Mars contains many examples of science altering nature. Since we're a part of nature, we guess that means human beings are significantly altered by these futuristic technologies as well. But it...