The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

by Robinson, Kim Stanley

• ISBN13: 9781597801850
• ISBN10: 1597801852
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781597802512
• 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 Drowned	p. 1
Ridge Running	p. 19
Before I Wake	p. 33
Black Air	p. 43
The Lucky Strike	p. 67
A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions	p. 99
Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars	p. 109
The Blind Geometer	p. 119
Our Town	p. 157
Escape from Kathmandu	p. 163
Remaking History	p. 211
The Translator	p. 223
Glacier	p. 237
The Lunatics	p. 257
Zürich	p. 281
Vinland the Dream	p. 291
"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"	p. 301
Muir on Shasta	p. 329
Sexual Dimorphism	p. 339
Discovering Life	p. 353
Prometheus Unbound, At Last	p. 361
The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942	p. 365
Afterword	p. 381
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