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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| Year | Earthlight, 2001 |
| First Published | 2001 |
| ISBN | 0-671-03754-4 |
| Goodreads ID | 278279 |
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Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald’s “Desolation Road, this novel is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion–powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet’s circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious–Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future — or futures — of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, “Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic–realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind–stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks.