Ares Express
Ares Express by Ian McDonald is a New Ed edition published by Earthlight in 2002, featuring 553 pages in English. This novel unfolds in a vibrant future on a terraformed Mars, where fusion-powered locomotives traverse a complex network of rails that serve as the planet’s circulatory system. The story centers on Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, a young woman whose fate is intricately tied to the future of Mars.
Readers will encounter a blend of picaresque elements and humor as they navigate this imaginative landscape. The narrative incorporates themes of artificial intelligence and reality manipulation, presenting a unique take on science fiction that draws inspiration from the works of Ray Bradbury and contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear. Ares Express invites exploration of bizarre philosophies and mind-bending concepts, all while featuring trains that are as large as city blocks.
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Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald’s DESOLATION ROAD, ARES EXPRESS 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.
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