According to sources speaking to Variety, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars has been green-lighted for a 10-episode TV adaptation on Spike TV.

Each episode will be an hour long, and J. Michael Straczynski, creator and writer of Babylon 5 and co-creator of Sense8 will serve as Red Mars’ writer, co-executive producer, and showrunner. Vince Gerardis, co-executive producer of Game of Thrones, will also serve as executive producer on Red Mars with Straczynski. Robinson will reportedly be an on-the-set consultant.

The Red Mars project has been on Spike TV’s plate for some time, but the network only just decided to move full-speed ahead with it, according to Variety. The show will go into production this summer and premiere in January 2017.

Red Mars, which was written in 1993 and followed by Green Mars and Blue Mars, chronicles the experience of the first hundred humans to colonize Mars. The trilogy deals with terraforming the red planet, but it also details the politics and interpersonal relationships that develop over long periods of time. In particular, the trilogy is beloved by its fans for its attention to scientific detail according to what we knew in the early '90s about Mars and interplanetary travel.

Hollywood blog Deadline notes that Red Mars will be Spike TV’s first full-fledged scripted drama in over a decade, after the cable channel spiked (pardon the pun) a series called Harvest, which would have been produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Spike TV aired a three-part miniseries this summer called Tut about the life of the Egyptian pharaoh, which performed well over the three nights that it aired. Spike TV has arranged for one of that show’s executive producers to co-executive produce Red Mars as well, perhaps to mitigate some of the risk involved with putting forward the cable network’s first scripted show in so many years.