Some Notes On Colonizing Mars

A great deal of information about Mars and the challenges of colonizing the Red Planet is available online. In the interests of producing something more interesting than another space opera, these stories should follow Arthur Clarke's advice that good science fiction should propose a minimum number of variances from current fact (aka, lies) and proceed to examine how humanity interacts and evolves in the resulting culture.

Here are some references about what we know (and what we think we know) about colonizing Mars.