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The best of Kim Stanley Robinson / edited by Jonathan Strahan.

Van Pelt Library PS3568.O2893 A6 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Robinson, Kim Stanley.
Contributor:
Strahan, Jonathan.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Short stories, American.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction, American.
Short stories, American.
Novels.
Physical Description:
389 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Kim Stanley Robinson
Place of Publication:
San Francisco [Calif.] : Night Shade Books, [2010]
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 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.
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
1597801844
OCLC:
609535546

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