This trilogy of speculative fiction by Kim Stanley Robinson chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the personal viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. The plots of Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars each rely heavily on current scientific ideas on how this could be achieved and present a plausible scenario on how the process would affect human society through the centuries such an undertaking would require.

The three cover designs of the trilogy's Spanish edition each show a single human figure surveying the terraforming work as it evolves. Human work and ingenuity literally transform the landscape in front of him and allows him to progressively free himself of the technological means required to protect himself in the evolving Mars atmosphere. Both the landscape and figures are CGI generated using Daz3D software which allowed our cover cooks to choose identical points of view and vary the landscape and costumes to graphically represent the visual narrative frames of evolution. The typeface deliberately resembles NASA’s logo to be visually grounded in an institution that has shaped the popular view of space exploration in the same way the book is grounded in current scientific understanding.