You would likely enjoy the red Mars book series by Kim Stanley Robinson. One of the scientist kind of abandons her duties to just explore Mars in a rover!

Just looked it up, seems awesome. I'm almost done with what I'm currently reading, so I will pick this up next. Do you have any other recommendations? I've been looking for more stuff like this (futurist, adventure, sci-fi, not cheesy), but just haven't been able to find the right one.

Yeah it’s great! New York 2142 by the same author was the first one I read and it was amazing. It’s nyc post global warming where everything is flooded. Interesting setting and adventure/business drama stuff.

I've lived in the same small town as Mr. Robinson for over a decade, despite that he's a bit of a local celebrity, I've never ever run into him. I was sure I'd see him at the Delta of Venus cafe....it seemed so reminiscent of some of the communities in the series, I was sure that there was some inspiration coming from some of the local Davis oddities.

I definitely recommend the series. Excellent excellent series. Coincidentally, I was out tonight at a used book store and I found and bought a copy of Red Mars (Book 1) to replace my lost copy. Ha!

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