There’s a rich vein of literary sci-fi adaptations on the best streaming services right now. The likes of 3 Body Problem on Netflix, The Expanse on Prime Video and Foundation on Apple TV+ all started life as popular books. But there’s one particular trilogy that hasn’t yet been touched by the small screen and I just can’t work out why.
The Mars Trilogy, by noted sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson, was released way back in the mid-1990s. The books have won both Hugo and Nebula awards and cover the journey of the first humans to Mars and the subsequent colonization and terraforming of the Red Planet. If you’ve not come across the series yet (and consider yourself a fan of sci-fi), you’ll want to pick them up right now ($52 in paperback from Amazon) and get reading. Fair warning though: it’ll take time. The novels are gargantuan and filled with scrupulous scientific detail on how a bunch of astronauts train for, journey to and then settle into an alien world. I’m about part-way through the last book in the series, Blue Mars, right now and I can’t fathom why this hasn’t been turned into a show yet.
