The best of Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson, Kim Stanley2010
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"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 surfaces of Mars itself, and though 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 group"--Cover, p. 2.
Main title:
The best of Kim Stanley Robinson / edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
San Francisco [Calif.] : Night Shade Books, c2010.
Collation:
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Venice drowned -- Ridge running -- Before I wake -- Black air -- The lucky strike -- A sensitive dependence on initial conditions -- Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars -- The blind geometer -- Our town -- Escape from Kathmandu -- Remaking history -- The translator -- Glacier -- The lunatics -- Zürich -- Vinland the dream -- "A history of the twentieth century, with illustrations" -- Muir on Shasta -- Sexual dimorphism -- Discovering life -- Prometheus unbound, at last -- The timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942.
ISBN:
9781597801843 (hbk)1597801844 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
144319
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | ROBI | Available |