Could someone give me a summary of "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson?
I read half the book and I just couldn't stand to continue reading.
However, I'm still curious about how things worked out, so I'd like a
basic summary of all the most important events in the book. How did
Hiroko come back? Who was the Coyote? Why was the Coyote a stow-away
and what was his basic purpose in the book? Who was behind all the
attacks that John failed to uncover? How did the book end? What other
major events happened in the latter half of the book?

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Clarification of Question by mxnmatch-ga on 01 Dec 2002 20:35 PST

Thanks! The http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/marsindx.html link was
pretty good, but it didn't actually tell me who was behind the attacks
that John was investigating.

If you can find similar overviews of Green Mars and Blue Mars I'll
tack on an additional $7.

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Clarification of Question by mxnmatch-ga on 02 Dec 2002 21:54 PST

I'm satisfied. Go ahead and answer the question so that I can pay you.

Combining my comments, then..

RED MARS PLOT SUMMARIES:
 
http://www.spies.com/~rawdon/books/sf/robinson.html 
 
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/marsindx.html
 
GREEN MARS PLOT SUMMARIES
 
http://gosh.ex.ac.uk/~cs99jdc/reviewgreenmars.html 
 
There's a shorter review at 
 
http://www.curledup.com/greenmar.htm 
 
BLUE MARS PLOT SUMMARIES
 
http://scifi.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfsite.com%2F%7Esilverag%2Fbluemars.html
 
There's also a good brief review at  
 
http://www.curledup.com/bluemars.htm 
 
KSR NEWSGROUP

alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson

You can search the archives at
 
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
 
Background on KSR

INTERVIEWS 
 
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html 
 
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/kim_stanley_robinson_interview_000626.html
 
http://www.sandm.co.uk/mary/sfjournm/Kim_Stanley_Robinson/kim_stanley_robinson.html
 
FAN SITE
 
http://gosh.ex.ac.uk/~cs99jdc/ksr.html 
 
Happy Reading!

The answer to some of your questions seems to be 'no reason'. But take
a look at these pages and if they satisfy you then I'll claim the
money.

http://www.spies.com/~rawdon/books/sf/robinson.html

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/marsindx.html

Green Mars was well-received and you can read a fairly detailed plot
summary here:

http://gosh.ex.ac.uk/~cs99jdc/reviewgreenmars.html

There's a shorter review at

http://www.curledup.com/greenmar.htm

Blue Mars didn't go over so well and didn't get so much attention: the
best plot summary I could find was at

http://scifi.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfsite.com%2F%7Esilverag%2Fbluemars.html

There's also a good brief review at 

http://www.curledup.com/bluemars.htm

There's a KSR newsgroup at alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson, but there
wasn't much activity when I was there. You can search the archives at

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en

If you want some background on KSR, there are interviews at:

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html

and

http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/kim_stanley_robinson_interview_000626.html

and 
 
http://www.sandm.co.uk/mary/sfjournm/Kim_Stanley_Robinson/kim_stanley_robinson.html

and a fan site at 

http://gosh.ex.ac.uk/~cs99jdc/ksr.html

Let me know what you think this is worth.