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    Finches of Mars

    By Brian W. Aldiss

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    Colonists on Mars fight to prevent their own extinction in “a suspenseful genre-bending combination of straight SF and mystery” (Booklist, starred review).

    Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars represents humankind’s last hope. In six tightly clustered towers on the red planet’s surface, the colonists who have escaped their dying home world are attempting to make a new life unencumbered by the corrupting influences of politics, art, and religion. Unable ever to return, these pioneers have chosen an unalterable path that winds through a landscape as terrible as it is beautiful, often forcing them to compromise their beliefs—and sometimes their humanity—in order to survive.
     
    But the gravest threat to the future is not the settlement’s total dependence on foodstuffs sent from a distant and increasingly uncaring Earth, or the events that occur in the aftermath of the miraculous discovery of native life on Mars—it is the fact that in the ten years since colonization began, every new human baby has been born dead, or so tragically deformed that death comes within hours.
     
    The great Brian W. Aldiss has delivered a dark and provocative yet ultimately hopeful magnum opus rich in imagination and bold ideas. A novel of philosophy as much as science fiction, Finches of Mars is an exploration of intellectual history, evolution, technology, and the future by one of speculative fiction’s undisputed masters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781504002127
    Finches of Mars
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    Brian W. Aldiss

    Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award‑winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three‑volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four‑volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was “Super‑Toys Last All Summer Long,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick’s death by Steven Spielberg as A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. 

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    • 1/5
      I hate the idea of giving a one star review to a Brian Aldiss book, but this was truly awful. If it had been written in the 1950s, I would say it had aged badly. But it was written in 2012. Not a great note for such a great writer to end on. Four hours of my life that I won't get back. And yes, I know, I should have just stopped reading when it became very obvious that it wouldn't get better (about 1 or 2 very short chapters in).

      The premise is a Mars colony set up by the brightest and best from the "United Universities". Unfortunately the nod at diversity fails completely due to some clumsy ethnic stereotyping. And by "brightest and best", he means "atheist and agnostic" only. I did wonder whether Aldiss meant this ironically. Like maybe this was the "new atheism" taken to its ultimate and absurdist conclusion, with the Mars colony as a logical positivist Hell. But no, apparently not.

      There was a glimmer of a clever twist in the penultimate chapter, before it descended into B-Movie hokum as the colony's enlightened descendents travel back in a time ship for no obvious reason. Sorry did I give away the end? Just be amazed that I got that far.

      Time to blow the dust off the Helliconia trilogy and remember happier days.
    • 3/5
      This is not an easy book.

      Humans have established a colony on Mars. It's driven and funded by an international consortium of universities--the United Universities, or UU. The colony consists of six towers, of which the West, Chinese, and Sud-Am towers figure most prominently in the story. The colonists have been chosen for atheism and emotional stability. It's not altogether clear that they succeeded on the second point. Among the odd choices made is that the colonists get assigned computer-generated names, meaning nothing, to symbolize having cut their ties to Earth. It's as if they've established a sixties commune, more than a colony on Mars, in some respects.

      The big problem haunting the colonists is that, ten years in, they've had a long series of miscarriages and stillbirths and horribly deformed babies that didn't live even five minutes, but no successful live births. The colony seems doomed.

      Most of the action, which mostly consists of conversation and interior thoughts, is on Mars, but we also get interludes on Earth, where we learn that the colonists are probably in even more trouble than they realize. Earth is sinking into s growing series of wars--which include a successful invasion of eastern North America. The UU is getting tired of supporting a colony that seems doomed anyway.

      It isn't just the tough subject matter that makes this book hard to enjoy. It's clear that Mr. Aldiss dislikes, if not the human race, at least the 21st century. There are items called "screamers" which, in context, appear to most likely be cell phones. Some other items are called "shriekers," which might be tvs, or maybe something else. It appears that "partners" has completely displaced "husband/wife," which might imply an adoption of gender-neutral terminology, but no. The man in a couple is called the "partner," while the woman is the "partness." There is not one single likable, admirable, compelling, or even especially interesting character in the book. All the interest comes from their circumstances--though it can't be denied that a colony striving to survive on Mars is a pretty interesting circumstance.

      I do want to be clear that none, or at least very little, of this is a failure of writing. Aldiss hasn't lost it. This book surely has an audience, and audience that will think I am a nut with low tastes.

      I'm just not that audience.

      I received a free electronic galley of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.
    • 2/5
      Years ago, when I was still learning what science fiction is, a Bulgarian publisher decided to translate and make available the Helliconia Trilogy. I loved it. It made me appreciate what Aldiss can do when he puts his mind to it. Unfortunately he seems to have forgotten how to do that. The story should have been a good one - humanity made it to Mars, made colonies and is surviving. And all would have been great if babies could be born - but all of them die - most before birth, some after birth. But they never survive - and without it, the world really do not belong to the humans. There are passages that hint at what Aldiss can do and the story is heart-breaking. But far more often, it is disjointed and alogical, sounding more as an exercise or a rough draft. How exactly that could happen in such a novel is beyond me. The saving grace of the whole book are the ideas - they are there, underdeveloped but still visible. And the high expectations for the last SF novel of one of the best authors did not help - a lot of my frustration was because of this - I would have accepted some of it from a new author that is still learning the craft - or at least I would have accepted it a bit better. I think I need to go and reread the Helliconia Trilogy - I really do not want to have "Finches of Mars" as my last memory of Aldiss.
    • 3/5
      Received via NetGalley from the Open Road Media in exchange for an honest and completely unbiased review.

      Also posted on Silk & Serif

      Finches of Mars is the work of science fictions most eminent authors. I researched Aldiss upon completion of this book and learned that most of his books require analysis and intellectual musings. The concept of all the Universities in the world sending people to Mars to colonize only to discover child birth nearly impossible. Children are the future of any colonization effort, so how will they survive? Obviously, the effects of countless still births is an under explored concept. Unfortunately, perhaps Aldiss should have turned his eye to a different topic for his final book.

      Aldiss weaves a story that is at times incoherent and often feels like two books set into one. The author spends plenty of time on plenty of issues such as theology, philosophy and sociology but falls short in connecting all these ideas into a steady stream throughout the book. Although Aldiss compares the colonizers of Tharsis to the Galapagos Finches from Darwin's Origin of Species the ending does very little to sustain this collation.

      However, the book's messages are extremely relevant to today's concerns regarding global warming, over population and religious strife. The tacit writing style was thought provoking. However, the overall story line was weak because there was only a rarely revisited concept linking all these character's experiences together: Darwinism. The ending was abrupt and tried to link Darwinism to the Tharsis colony, but failed miserably. I didn't hate this book, it just lacked a common thread to link all the random character experiences together.

      My suggestion would be read this book when you want something to inspire thoughtfulness, but aren't particularly picky about the story arch being a common thread. This book would appeal to readers who enjoy science fiction, literary analysis, deep sociological issues, philosophy or Aldiss' earlier work.

      Farewell Brian W Aldiss from the realm of science fiction, you will be missed!
    • 1/5
      Brian W. Aldiss has stated that Finches of Mars is his final science fiction novel, and all I can say is, "Thank God!" He was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1999; while his earlier work (none of which I have read) may be stellar, he is now, at 90, clearly resting on his laurels because Finches of Mars is a disjointed and virtually unreadable disaster.I probably should have paid closer attention to the book's description on NetGalley before requesting an ARC. The publisher states that it is "[a] novel of philosophy as much as science fiction," and that is exactly how it comes across: as a random series of philosophical musings with no real plot and little connection beyond the same cast of cold and boring characters. As to the first point (randomness), consider this passage:"He got up to make for Kinshasa, and work, and study. His nose was still bleeding.Food rations were getting smaller, but they had no worries about water shortages; or rather, they had not thought to worry about its running out: soundings had shown that the cavern containing the subterranean water was vast."Given the absence of any transition whatsoever between these two paragraphs, one might be forgiven for believing that both the bleeding nose and the food shortage occurred at the same time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, yet the concluding reference to a cavern of subterranean water abruptly notifies the reader that we are now on Mars, miles and years away from the blow Rasir received from his uncle.As to the second point (unbelievable characters), upon returning from an expedition during which they discovered possible evidence of a previous life form on Mars's surface, the colonists' first priority is not to engage in scientific analysis, but to argue over what word they should use for"the new emotion many of them experienced on this occasion when walking on Mars. Eventually they decided to adopt metanipoko. An intensity of regret and delight. Stroy ventured to suggest selbsthilfloszwang. It was considered but not adopted. . . . Several people came up to Stroy after the meeting to say they regretted her new word had not been adopted."Seriously? If all conversations on Mars were this trivial, no wonder some of the universities supporting the colony withdrew their funding, leading to the smaller food rations which concerned Rasir two chapters earlier.Or what about this conversation between a doctor and her dying patient:"She held his hand, regarding him gravely. "Are we in some way a dream of the cosmos? Although it goes against my profession, I mean the profession of healing, I sometimes find myself inclining to a belief that we are insubstantial beings.He blinked at her, acknowledging that indeed he was a prime example of an insubstantial being."I suspect the patient's blink was not an acknowledgement of his insubstantiality, but an indication of his perplexity over the identity of the nut holding his hand.Aldiss fans may want to read Finches of Mars for completeness; those looking for a good story with relatable characters should go elsewhere.I received a free copy of Finches of Mars through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 2/5
      The sketches of well-known and respected artists are as sought-after as their more complete works of art. They convey the ideas and inspirations of the artist, the stages of development of the artist's conception and oeuvré, as well as displays of virtuoso technique. It is in this frame of mind that one must approach Finches of Mars. The work is a series of scenes with a soupçon of dialog and action, a collection of generously delineated ideas from the narrator/author. These are sketches of some problems a fledgling utopia might face when separated by time and distance from its parent civilization, in this case a nightmare dystopia on Earth brought on by overpopulation.Of course, lack of normal resources is a major concern - normal gravity, breathable air, potable water, native food, acceptable levels of radiation, etc. However, some of the most intransigent problems are found in the human psyche and libido, the problems the human race will bring with it, no matter how tightly circumscribed the selection criteria for potential colonists. Brian Aldiss goes a long way to carefully select his colonists in order to avoid the wars and disputations occurring on earth. Most particularly, they must be atheists or agnostics so as to avoid religious differences. They also must be highly intelligent and well educated, supposedly relying on logic rather than emotion to resolve conflicts, although that criteria needn't apply to people employed to do menial labor in the colony.Beyond the expected difficulties in this struggling community, Aldiss has posited that the effect of lesser gravity causes most fetuses to abort and any that survive until birth die within hours of delivery of the infant. This problem means that, unless it is successfully dealt with, the colony has no long term viability.This is a good setup for a novel. There are economic conflicts (dependency on the distant dystopian civilization for food and other resources), ecological conflicts, social conflicts and physical conflicts galore, even in a supposed utopia! What follows, though, is not a completed work of art; rather, it is a series of sketches of some of the kinds of events that could take place as the colonists face each of these conflicts. There is occasional dialog as a scene is set, sometimes some action. Maybe three-quarters of the content is the narrator, in a third-person omniscient point of view, describing, sketching, the current situation and its moral and ethical implications.The concepts are quite interesting, and if one accepts the restrictions used to select colonists, then the makings of an interesting novel are all present. The scenes are presented in a chronological order, but there are a couple of massive discontinuities. Due to these large gaps in time and to the large range of conflicts to address, character development is minimal. Rather, a sketch is presented of the driving force in several of the actors - sexual urges, forsaken love, spirituality. Interestingly, it is all of these physical and emotional forces which provide the conflicts in these hyper-intelligent mentally-centered colonists.This is an interesting sketchbook of ideas, placed in a tentative plot-order by the major conflict of the lack of viable birth on Mars. The play of morality and ethics when emotional drives lead to conflicts in an intellectual environment is quite tantalizing. But a completed masterpiece, this is not. One can only wish that Aldiss would take this rich store of ideas and sketches and complete it, turning it into a novel where the characters develop beyond their original raison d'être and demonstrate by their actions and dialogue how they resolve their many conflicts, rather than having a narrator/author describe the development and resolution of each. But as a sketchbook of Brian Aldiss' inspirations, concepts, techniques and fertile mind, it is worth reading, exploring and enjoying.I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
    • 2/5
      The only good thing you can say about this novel is that it’s better than White Mars. Essentially, this is a rewriting of that 1999 utopian novel co-written with Sir Roger Penrose.This may be advertised as an environmental dystopian novel with Earth a mess from war, global warming, bee colony collapse, overpopulation, environmental disaster, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and ignorance. Humanity’s colony on Mars, improbably run and sponsored by a consortium of universities, the United Universities, may be threatened by women being unable to give birth. This, though, is ultimately a utopian novel. The Martian colony is about Mankind Achieving a Renewed Society. Like all utopian works, we get a list of what’s wrong with our world and the solutions. Aldiss is a good enough writer where he abbreviates these sections and has characters give counterarguments. But the arguments are too brief to be convincing, the characters who give them so numerous and thinly described that only two hydrologists, the first men on Mars, are in any way memorable or even distinguishable from the rest of the Martian crowd.We get Martian life of a decidedly plausible nature instead of the ludicrous moving mountain of Mons Olympus in White Mars. Aldiss, who has long returned to evolutionary themes in his career, talks about evolution here, but he seems to falter. Are we to see the Martian society as a sort of organism speciating from general humanity, Hamiltonian fitness at work via a carefully (though, it turns out, not so much) group of people?. Or are we to see the evolution happening on the individual level in which case, by analogy, he’s given us Lamarckism and not Darwinian evolution? We also seem to be a bit shy about saying races are subspecies of man that have, by definition, significantly different traits manifested, partly, in their history.At least we are spared the boring, cheap mysticism of White Mars and its talk of particle physics.

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