Rainbow Mars Author:Larry Niven Five-time Hugo Award-winner Larry Niven weaves together time travel and fantasy to create an utterly unique novel on the origin of the Martian "canals." — Hanville Svetz was born into a future earth that matches the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. With most of Earth's original species extinct, Svetz travels back and forth in time retrieving t... more »hem. Svetz learns that Mars was inhabited, and how the sapient Martian species were wiped out. He forsees that Earth could soon fall victim to the same fate.« less
A wild ride through near space and time with a bit of fantasy for fun. A view of our future if we don't smart'en up. You keep saying "how could they let these things happen!"