The best SF I’ve ever read about humans trying to transform Mars into an Earth-like world is the 1990’s Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I loved them because they were in the “hard Science Fiction” tradition of Arthur C Clarke, Poul Anderson and others who focused on getting the science as realistic and as accurate as possible.
As such, Robinson makes it clear that such terraforming is a multi-century project, and if you look at that accurate depiction of a Mars rover you could not be blamed for thinking that even his “Blue Mars” would not be achievable by the year 2300.
Still, it’s fun to explore the possibility, especially since the world’s richest man seems to be bending every one of his companies, bar one, towards his goal of establishing a human settlement on Mars in the next decade, something I wouldn’t past him achieving.
So click on the following link and take a gander at what some scientists have been doing in their spare time in imagining the longer-term project.
No Minister 
Dude, your demented cult leader blew up the global economy yesterday and this is what you’re talking about? Jesse Watters not send you some talking points?
Great series of books. As an aside did you know the Poul Anderson even wrote a Conan novel?
Heh. No. Not surprising though as quite a few of the SF authors dabbled in other fields.
I have two of the series here still to read. The first was ………. long.
I liked Bova’s take on the planet better.
“Mars Inc, The Billionaires” or just “Mars” from the early 90’s – because the latter sucked.
Beloved Wife picked it up in an op shop for me but it took me literally years to read it – a few pages at a time was the best I could manage – and I was pissed off with the ending, which just seemed so dull and anti-climatic, although fitting for the rest of the book.
Shame because I’d read one of his other books (USA v USSR on a space station??) and thought it was great.
Mars, from memory, from a series of one book/one planet.
Red Mars was more about humanising terrorists but readable.