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    4 hours ago

    The nomadic colony got expanded on in KSR’s novel 2312. I don’t actually remember much about it in the Mars Trilogy.

    But I’ve seen the concept before in an old EU Star Wars novel, one of the Solo books maybe, where Lando was operating something similar as his new venture.

    And before that maybe mentioned by Sagan. And before that…

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        15 minutes ago

        Adjacent, probably. Very similar, and seems to purposefully be set a hundred years after Blue Mars ends (2212).

        But it starts and ends on Mercury after a voyage through the solar system, not spending much story time on Mars.