Kim Stanley Robinson's astonishing Mars sequence won the Nebula Award for the first volume, and the Hugo Award for both the second and third volumes. Arthur C. Clarke called these novels "staggering...required for the colonists of the next century".

Icehenge was Robinson's first novel set on Mars.

"Icehenge is a quiet, touching, unforgettable story about three people.... It is a rare novel that succeeds in taking the reader across the boundary from the real world to the imagined one; that rouses us to care about the lives and loves of its characters as much as we care about our own. Icehenge is such a novel". -- Baltimore Sun