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9781597801850

The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

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  • ISBN13:

    9781597801850

  • ISBN10:

    1597801852

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-01-02
  • Publisher: Nightshade Book

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Summary

Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries--these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through themes of environmental sustainability, social justice, personal responsibility, sports, adventure and fun, Robinson's protagonists explore a world which stands in sharp contrast to many of the traditional locales and mores of science fiction, presenting instead a world in which Utopia rests within our grasp. From Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy, the Three Californias Trilogy, the Science in the Capital series, The Martians, and The Years of Rice and Salt, comes The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. These twenty-two stories, including the Nebula Award-winning "The Blind Geometer," and World Fantasy Award winner "Black Air" represent The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson.

Table of Contents

Venice Drownedp. 1
Ridge Runningp. 19
Before I Wakep. 33
Black Airp. 43
The Lucky Strikep. 67
A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditionsp. 99
Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Marsp. 109
The Blind Geometerp. 119
Our Townp. 157
Escape from Kathmandup. 163
Remaking Historyp. 211
The Translatorp. 223
Glacierp. 237
The Lunaticsp. 257
Zürichp. 281
Vinland the Dreamp. 291
"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"p. 301
Muir on Shastap. 329
Sexual Dimorphismp. 339
Discovering Lifep. 353
Prometheus Unbound, At Lastp. 361
The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942p. 365
Afterwordp. 381
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