Life begins anew for 100 Martian colonists, as they study and inadvertently begin terraforming the planet, while splinter groups threaten to break up the colony.

Very unsatisfying.  The beginning wrapped up the revolution, but only by killing the rebels, not by resolving the crisis.  Maybe that's more real... I don't know.   The rest of the book is spent doing absolutely nothing, until the end, when the third revolution is described in a couple of pages!  I think this was another book used simply to show off the authors ideas about technology of the future, and the sexually free society.