Moving Mars

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Moving Mars is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-8125-2480-2). Published in 1993, it won the 1994 Nebula Award for best novel, and was also nominated for the 1994 Hugo Award in the same category. The main strength of Moving Mars is the development of Casseia Mujumdar, the main character.

The book starts off with a comparison of Mars to Earth, and continues into the story. Casseia Mujumdar is the narrator and is old when she writes her account of Mars' past in the form of a diary. Students angered at the breaking of their contract with the University of Mars, Sinai, start a protest and plan to storm the university (only a small number of students). Eventually, Casseia comes out as a leader.

The politics in this book are interesting, dealing with the "Triple", the combined economy of Earth, the Moon, and Mars. On Mars the first colonists formed families, which developed into larger family-units called Binding Multiples. The BMs were fashioned after the Lunar system, and were being threatened to be toppled out of power by Statists, people who want a unified Mars under a centralized government.