Where to Start with Kim Stanley Robinson
- Best entry point → The Ministry for the Future
- Best standalone → New York 2140
- Start the Mars Trilogy series → Red Mars
- What fans keep coming back to → Green Mars
- Best narrator for Kim Stanley Robinson → Blue Mars
- Highest rated by listeners → Antarctica
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Green Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 2
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.99 ABR Score (43.6K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (41.2K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.5K)27h 10m listening time • Released 2008 -
Blue Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 3
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.92 ABR Score (35.2K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (1.9K)31h 55m listening time • Released 2008 -
The Ministry for the Future
Science in the Capital
Narrated by Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo, Vikas Adam
★ 3.90 ABR Score (46.8K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (43.1K) ★ 4.23 Audible (3.7K)20h 42m listening time • Released 2020 -
Red Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 1
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.78 ABR Score (94.5K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (89.2K) ★ 4.03 Audible (5.3K)23h 51m listening time • Released 2008 -
Antarctica
Science in the Capital trilogy
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.72 ABR Score (3.5K ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.08 Audible (88)19h 10m listening time • Released 2021 -
New York 2140
Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Caitlin Kelly, Michael Crouch, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Christopher Ryan Grant, Robert Blumenfeld
★ 3.70 ABR Score (15.9K ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (15.8K) ★ 4.24 Audible (29)22h 35m listening time • Released 2020 -
Aurora
Mars trilogy
Narrated by Ali Ahn
★ 3.63 ABR Score (31.2K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (28.0K) ★ 3.93 Audible (3.2K)16h 56m listening time • Released 2015
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