“If anyone is the complete master of the grand-scale sf novel, it’s Bear….[Moving Mars] is also told extremely well with nothing lacking in either scientific soundness or literary excellence.” —Booklist

“Long, epic in sweep, and scrupulous in its details….The novel’s best moments involve Bear’s ingenous biological and physical speculations, which do not simply color the narrative but…shape and inform its texture.” —Washington Post Book World

“Bear’s Mars is one of the most vividly realized of the areological novels…He has the gift of implying a whole background with high-resolution but subtly-signaled background details, again built into the language of the milieu rather than in more obtrusive devices.” —Locus

“Moving Mars is an accomplished, thoroughly mature novel that should be placed at the top of anyone’s ‘to be read’ stack.” —Science Fiction Age

“Bear, on of the stars of contemporary SF, shows the heights to which SF can reach in this sprawling, literate, science-laden saga.” —Kliatt