Bibliograph

The best of Kim Stanley Robinson, edited by Jonathan Strahan

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The best of Kim Stanley Robinson, edited by Jonathan Strahan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The best of Kim Stanley Robinson

Oclc number

609535546

Responsibility statement

edited by Jonathan Strahan

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Kim Stanley Robinson

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