22世纪末，火星走到了历史的十字路口。
一方面，分散的火星族盟各自为政，主张中央集权的激进派和维持现状的保守派斗争激烈;另一方面，地球又从经济和技术上压制火星发展，企图将其纳入地球主导的联盟。
就在这时，火星上的科学家发现了时空扰动的秘密，足以使火星拥有毁灭地球的能力。得知这一消息后，地球决定先下手为强。
在这场一触即发的星际冲突中，火星女孩凯西娅·马朱达阴差阳错走上了历史舞台，并做出了一个彻底改变火星命运的决定……
Moving Mars [AUDIOBOOK]
by Greg Bear (Author) , Sharon Williams (Narrator)
Review
Nebula Award winner Bear has long been known for novels of stunning scientific extrapolation and high literary quality from his early novel Blood Music to his more recent Queen of Angels . This new novel of Mars is his finest yet. Bear follows the unlikely career of Casseia Majumdar of the Majumdar Binding Multiple (a sort of cross between an extended family and a corporation) as she goes from lukewarm student activist to president of the fledgling Federal Republic of Mars. Beginning as a coming-of-age story, with Casseia encountering corruption as well as courage and determination in a student uprising, the narrative then becomes a fine, taut and realistic political novel, as Casseia travels to Earth as part of an ambassadorial retinue, and later serves as second in leader Ti Sandra's push for Martian unification. As conflict heats up between upstart Mars and Mother Earth, Bear introduces a wildly intriguing hard-science idea, and the novel spins into a tense science fiction thriller. Bear offers a fast-moving plot; realistic, appealing characters; a vividly imagined future Earth awash in "tailored microbes," nanotechnology and dirty dealing; and the most believable evocation of the workings of politics and science in any recent science fiction novel. It all adds up to a blowout of a book, perhaps the best of the recent Mars novels, and certainly one of the best sf novels of the year.
