The article proposes to classify the book Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, as a systems novel, according to Tom LeClair based on Bertalanffy's general systems theory, listing two characteristics: Robinson's adoption of what we call logistical utopia, a model which focuses on practical and sustainable solutions to environmental and social problems, exemplified in the Mars Trilogy, of which Red Mars is the first volume. The analysis of this utopian system (also based on Fredric Jameson and Tom Moylan and their work on critical utopia, of which logistical utopia is a derivation) also addresses how Robinson uses the narrative strategy of the metalogue to involve readers in in-depth discussions about the construction of alternative futures, in which the characters assume the role of producers and receivers of information rather than agents of action.