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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:20 PM
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For fans of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2008/09/modified_mars.php

Frans Blok has been imagining maps of a future, terraformed Mars. He writes, “Almost ten years ago I made this map of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars. Recently I created a more sophisticated visualisation of a terraformed Mars, although no longer directly linked to Robinson’s novels. This map has the additional option to be viewed in Google Earth.”

The http://www.modifiedmars.com/globe.html">Google Mars map is especially cool:



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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:21 PM
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1. Ooh, love the novels.
Nice maps! Thanks!
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 07:18 PM
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2. That's totally cool.
I'm a major KSR fan, so seeing these names pop up years after reading the trilogy is very neat.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:29 PM
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3. wow thank you
these must be among the best novels ever written in my view!
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