Aldiss, Brian Wilson. White Mars, New York: St. Martin's Press 2000, c1999.It's the mid 21st century AD, and Mars has been colonised by the powerfull EUPACUS corporation. As they explore and exploit its natural resources, and inch towards total planetary ownership, economic crisis on earth brings the plan (and civilisation on earth itself) undone, positioning the pioneers on Mars as humanity's last hope. Aldiss intersperses polemical, political debates among the colonisers (led by physicist Tom Jefferies) with observations on the application of knowledge and technology to the project of human progress (the book was contributed to physicist Sir Roger Penros, and international law expert Laurence Lustgarten), making this novel part fiction, part philosophical/sociological treatise.
