The Kavajava Post

[emsariel]

If you've been following me on Twitter or Facebook for the last few weeks, you'll know that on finishing up Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy I got curious about kava root and, specifically, the 'kavajava' combination with coffee that appears in Green and Blue Mars.  In the series one character facilitates Mars' first real political convention,

Comments

[torts_schmorts]

Sounds like you were successful. Can I request you next throw your efforts into the books' longevity treatments?

[emsariel]

Sorry, back in 2010, I established with one of my coworkers that it is logically always best to put all of one's efforts into time travel, on the grounds that if you succeed you can reclaim the time.

Kavajava is just so that I can finish the time travel.

[irilyth]

Next, you should read some Stephen Brust, and try klava! :^)

[emsariel]

Wait, is that klah plus kava?

TSOR says not, that's a shame.

Is there kava talk in the first book, red mars?

[anonymous]

Just wanted to know if I decided to read some Sci-fi and read red mars first would I encounter any talks about kava? This I would like to know! Thanks marotta_427@yahoo.com

[emsariel]

Hello, Marotta -- I don't think that there is any discussion of kava in Red Mars. I think it's only in the later books, Green Mars and Blue Mars.