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Who is Saxifrage 'Sax' Russell from Red Mars and what is their importance? Mars_trilogy English & Literature Saxifrage 'Sax' Russell | Red Mars
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Saxifrage Russell is one of the American colonists who arrives on the Ares as part of the first hundred. As a physicist, he is well respected and considered a genius. As a person, however, Sax has little social skills and is often sees as stand-offish, nerdy, and socially inept. On Mars, Sax quickly becomes the unwitting leader of the Green movement, or the movement who believes firmly in the terraformation of the planet for Earth use.