'Red Mars' could be sci-fi TV's 'Game of Thrones'

Author Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is heading to television, under the title of its first novel Red Mars. American network Spike TV has confirmed a ten-episode season set to premiere in January 2017.
A classic of 'hard' sci-fi, the books -- Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars -- follow the colonisation of Mars over the course of centuries. Robinson charts the earliest colonisation efforts through to final terraforming of the planet,