If Sax Russell’s meticulous terraforming models and long-view, nuts-and-bolts problem‑solving in Blue Mars thrilled you, 2312 goes even bigger: moving cities glide along Mercury’s terminator, terraforming projects span moons and planets, and orbital mechanics and materials science drive real political stakes. You’ll get that same blend of exacting science and sweeping possibility—only stretched across the whole Solar System.

If the epochal, society-wide transformations of Blue Mars—from longevity treatments reshaping culture to terraforming remaking a world—hooked you, Pandora’s Star delivers an even broader panorama. You’ll follow scientists, detectives, and power brokers as the Commonwealth opens the galaxy via wormholes, unleashing repercussions as momentous as Sax and Ann’s world‑making choices.

If the constitutional wrangling and governance experiments in Blue Mars—the hard arguing over how Mars should be run after independence—were your favorite parts, The Dispossessed will resonate. Shevek’s struggle to bridge two worlds while challenging entrenched systems mirrors those Martian debates about freedom, responsibility, and the price of a workable utopia.

If you were riveted by Ann Clayborne’s preservationist ethos clashing with Sax Russell’s transformative vision in Blue Mars, this novel centers that tension. On an ocean world, the Sharers practice bioengineered stewardship and nonviolent resistance against offworld exploitation, probing the same questions of ecological limits, consent, and what it means to "improve" a living world.

If you loved how Blue Mars followed a wide cast—scientists, builders, diplomats—through seismic shifts in policy and technology, River of Gods offers a similarly rich mosaic. From a hard‑pressed water minister to AI researchers and media power players, these intersecting lives trace a nation on the brink, echoing Mars’s many voices and agendas as history turns.