Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The blockbusting finale to the most significant science fiction series of the 1990s - `the ultimate in future history' (Daily Mail).
The fight for Martian freedom is on. Will the Earth-based metanationals turn it into an industrial complex and mining colony? Will the U.N use it as a solution for Earth's over-population? Or will the radical Reds take over Mars and declare it a free state?