Moving Mars

Nebula Award SF Chronicle Award Greg Bear's latest novel is a tour-de-force of super-science and politics, in which individual lives are of equal importance with the cosmic changes involved. Casseia Majumdar is a student on Mars, fighting the State government's attempts to control the entire planet's population. She is attracted to a young scientist, Charles Franklin, but events push them apart and it is not until Earth's manipulation of Martian politics and economy become a threat to the planet that they are reunited: Casseia as a political leader, Charles as a physicist whose theories could change the future of humanity and the universe irrevocably...