Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Tor Books $17.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-312-93196-4
Robinson ( The Wild Shore ) has expanded a previously published novelette into the title story of this enjoyable collection, and added three sequels. All four tales are about mountain climbers George Fergusson and George ``Freds'' Fredericks, and...
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $28 (624p) ISBN 978-0-316-26234-7
Unlike J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, which was also set on a mid-22nd-century Earth devastated by global warming but focused on the effects of that cataclysm on the human psyche, Robinson’s latest near-future novel examines the political and...
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-09810-6
This ambitious hard SF epic shows Robinson (Shaman) at the top of his game. Freya and her parents live aboard a starship that has traveled for generations and will soon reach Tau Ceti, a star about 12 light years from Earth’s solar system. Freya’s...
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-316-09807-6
Robinson (2312) makes a shift from near-future SF to prehistorical fiction with this entertaining but slight ice-age bildungsroman. Loon, a young man on the verge of adulthood, marks his birthday by surviving alone in the wild for two weeks....
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $25.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-316-09812-0
Robinson (Galileo’s Dream) delivers a challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction. In a spectacularly depicted future of interplanetary colonization, humanity has spread across the entire solar system, from miniature biomes in hollowed-out
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Spectra Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80117-0
With a Nebula and two Hugos to its credit, Robinson's monumental Mars trilogy (Red Mars, etc.) is one of the most honored series in the history of science fiction. Having finished the trilogy, however, and gone on to write yet another major novel,...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-553-10063-1
In the early 21st century, things are beginning to change in Antarctica. Scientists still come down to the American base at McMurdo to do research, but they now bump shoulders with tourists hoping to retrace the treks of early explorers. More...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10144-7
Red Mars, the kickoff to Robinson's epic Mars trilogy, won the Nebula for best SF novel of 1992; its follow-up, Green Mars, won the parallel Hugo for 1994. The conclusion to the saga is not unlike the terrain of Robinson's Red Planet: fertile and...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09640-8
The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth's metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. Debate among the settlers--some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred--is divided...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Tor Books $18.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-85126-2
The 14 tales in Robinson's ( The Planet on the Table ) new collection are an uneven blend; some strike home, but in others the characters are just short of interesting and the narratives tend to drag on too long. The best entries are the three that...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Tor Books $18.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-312-85097-5
An outstanding achievement, the concluding volume in Robinson's Orange County, Calif., trilogy again takes place in the middle of the next century. The books are not strict sequels, providing instead several versions of an alternate world. While The
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author . Bantam $25.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-553-10920-7
Having revolutionized the novel of planetary exploration with his Nebula- and Hugo-winning Mars trilogy (Red Mars, etc.), Robinson is attempting to do the same to another genre with this highly realistic and credible alternate history. It's the...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Tor Books $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-93595-5
In the past two years Robinson has published three well-received novels. This, his first collection of shorter work, is comprised of eight stories, including a World Fantasy Award winner and several Hugo and Nebula nominees. Robinson's strengths are
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-312-93050-9
This fine, bleak look at Orange County, Calif., owes more to 1984 and A Clockwork Orange than to the usual SF scenario. By 2067, the land between L.A. and San Diego County is a maze of gigantic shopping malls, ""condomundos'' and huge aerospace...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09204-2
The first installment in Robinson's ( Blind Geometer ) new trilogy is an action-packed and thoughtful tale of the exploration and settlement of Mars--riven by both personal and ideological conflicts--in the early 21st century. The official leaders...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author Orb Books $16.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-89036-0
Robinson's science fiction triology set in Orange County, California, offers three different futures: the aftermath of nuclear war; a city of uncontrollable urban development; and life in a total, environmentally-conscious society. (June)
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author PM $12 (121p) ISBN 978-1-60486-085-6
Hugo-winning novelist Robinson (Galileo’s Dream
) began his career with short fiction. “The Lucky Strike,” a novelette first published in 1984, posits an alternate history in which the Enola Gay
crashes on a test run before...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author . Spectra $26 (532p) ISBN 978-0-553-80659-5
The creative imagination of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus–winner Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt
) is on display in this offbeat novel of scientific discovery. In 1609, a stranger tells Galileo Galilei about a recent Dutch device that magnifies
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author . Bantam Spectra $25 (388p) ISBN 978-0-553-80313-6
Inside-the-Beltway policy wonks and government scientists strive to save the world from environmental collapse in the well-written third installment (after 2005's Fifty Degrees Below
) of this hyperrealistic, near-future SF series. The Gulf...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author . Bantam $25 (405p) ISBN 978-0-553-80312-9
Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson's well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to Forty Signs of Rain
(2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes,...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, Author . Bantam $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80311-2
In this cerebral near-future novel, the first in a trilogy, Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt
) explores the events leading up to a worldwide catastrophe brought on by global warming. Each of his various viewpoint characters holds a small piece...
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Edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59780-184-3
Robinson's award-winning novels (the Mars Trilogy, Galileo's Dream) often unjustly overshadow his brilliant short stories, an error that this impressive collection will do much to correct. "Venice Drowned" chronicles Carlo Tafur's heartbreak as he...
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-316-26237-8
Although the premise of Robinson’s disappointing latest near-future novel—that by 2047 the moon has been colonized by the U.S. and China—is classically science-fictional, the focus remains on projecting those countries’ economic and political...
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Orbit, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-30013-1
Bestseller Robinson (Forty Signs of Rain) again tackles climate change head-on in this gutsy, humane view of a near-future Earth careening toward collapse. Mary Murphy, head of the Ministry for the Future, a UN watchdog agency created as a result of
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Little, Brown, $40 (560p) ISBN 978-0-316-59301-4
Novelist Robinson (the Mars trilogy) vividly conveys his passion for the Sierra mountains in this enthralling blend of memoir, history, and science. Robinson first hiked in the Sierras on LSD in 1973 as a college student, an experience that sparked...
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