Study Guide

Red Mars Characters

By Kim Stanley Robinson

John Boone is the Neil Armstrong of the 21st century. He was an American astronaut and the first...

We first meet Frank Chalmers while he's plotting the murder of his best friend, John Boone. And...

Not to be jerks, but we’re going to stick with calling this character by her nickname of...

Maya, Maya, Maya… what can we say about Maya? She's Maya. That about nails it. Okay, we...

Arkady Bogdanov is a character. Not a character as in a character in the novel—that's a...

Every space exploration needs its clichéd scientist. You know, the guy who walks around in...

In Sax's character analysis, we said he was Ann's foil. So, it's probably a safe bet that she is...

We can best sum up Hiroko Ai as an enigma—which is really just a fancy way of saying we...

Michel Duval is the psychiatrist for Mars's first one hundred colonists, and while on Mars, he...

Phyllis is another geologist among the First Hundred, and also a Christian. When we first really...

All three are members of the First Hundred who become researchers at Acheron. Although these guys...