A future history of colonising another planet. It was written in the 1990s but reads like it was written in the late 2010s: a penetrating exploration of how nationalism, capitalism, and a desire for independence might play out over interplanetary distances, all told with Robinson’s usual hardest-of-the-hard-science approach.

4/5. Finished Monday 22 November, 2021.

(Originally published on Goodreads.)