I recommend the novel Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Mars makes Antarctica look like a jungle.

"The Red Mars series initiated a shift in science fiction away from the stars and back to our real future in the solar system. Unless a technological miracle occurs, we are not building an interstellar civilization anytime soon..."

"Writing On The Terrifying Beauty Of The Human Future", Adam Frank, NPR 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/11/02/561577403/writi...