In Moving Mars, Bear raises serious questions about the positive effect upon human values of science and technology by describing a future Martian society. Casseia Majumdar, the young woman who narrates, is forced to ponder the moral implications of technological development as she rises ever higher in the movement to unify Mars politically. At the opening of the novel, the planet has been settled by humans for some time and belongs to a loose Triple Alliance with Earth and its Moon. All three populations benefit from the same great technological advances in communications,...
Source: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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