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Earth Abides (Paperback)
George R Stewart; Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson
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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR 'If I could get
policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this
year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the
Future' Ezra Klein, Vox 'A great read' Bill Gates The Ministry for
the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional
eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will
affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic
world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama
as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel
from visionary writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you
think about the climate crisis. 'A novel that presents a rousing
vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of
our time' TED.com 'A breathtaking look at the challenges that face
our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their
intimate, individual moments of humanity' Booklist (starred review)
'Gutsy, humane . . . a must-read for anyone worried about the
future of the planet' Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'A
sweeping epic about climate change and humanity's efforts to try
and turn the tide before it's too late' Polygon (Best of the Year)
'Steely, visionary optimism' Guardian
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Red Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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A vanguard of the Mongol horde rides west across the steppes into an eerily silent world. People lie dead in villages and in the streets of towns. The Black Death has struck Europe. There are virtually no survivors. Into this empty land pour merchants, warlords and refugees, and from that day forward history is shaped by the East instead of the West. Japanese ships cross the Pacific Ocean and Chinese ships cross the Atlantic to colonise the New World, while a scientific revolution is begun in Samarkand. And the destinies of a cast of unforgettable characters weave a bright new pattern through seven hundred years of history as it never was, but might have been. "This marvellous book may be the most hopeful thing you read for a long time" 'Evening Standard' "A dazzling work of speculation with all the qualities of a great historical novel – it is by turns thrilling, tragic, funny and thoughtful" 'Scotsman' "A huge, complex and highly enjoyable book" 'New Scientist'
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Green Earth (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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GREEN EARTH takes the stories first told in FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN,
FIFTY DEGREES BELOW and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING and combines them
in a fully updated, compressed and compelling single volume.
Catastrophe is in the air. Increasingly strange weather events are
pummelling the Earth. When the Gulf Stream shuts down and the
Antarctic ice sheet starts melting, climate extremes multiply, and
some winters hit like an ice age. New U.S. President Phil Chase is
on a mission: he's determined to solve climate change. His science
advisor, Frank Vanderwal, is a bit more messed up. When massive
floods hit Washington, Frank finds himself living in a treehouse
and in love with a woman who's definitely not what she seems, one
who will draw him into the shadowy world of Homeland Security, and
other, blacker agencies. Only science can save the day. Frank knows
he has to find a way to save the world so that science can proceed.
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Red Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and
lavishly praised Mars trilogy. 'The ultimate in future history'
Daily Mail Mars - the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises
mankind's dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who
looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first
colonists - hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to
create life from cold desert - Red Mars is the story of a new
genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his
own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he
even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions
are rising and violence is brewing... for civilization can be very
uncivilized.
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Blue Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and
lavishly praised Mars trilogy. 'The ultimate in future history'
Daily Mail Mars has grown up It is fully terraformed - genetically
engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young
but stormy seas. It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing
new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain
are like walking myths to Martian youth. Earth has grown too much
Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For
too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for,
fight for... perhaps even die for.
A glorious companion volume to Robinson's world-wide bestselling
trilogy. All Colours Mars Red Mars. Green Mars. Blue Mars. The Mars
trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction
classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of
readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley
Robinson's essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and
short stories head the collection, along with texts on the Martian
constitution, maps and Martian inspired poetry. In short, The
Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction,
a fascinating addition to Robinson's oeuvre, and a must for all
lovers of the red planet.
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Green Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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In the "Nebula Award" winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began
his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now
the "Hugo Award" winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and
timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest
frontier.
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but
the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun
The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets
hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these
young people are the first generation of children born on Mars.
They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon
Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions,
rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the
planet itself.
Antarctica... Our last wilderness. But for how long? A topical
future history thriller from the worldwide bestselling author of
the Mars series. Like the land it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is
dissolving. The world's last unstripped asset, Antarctica is in
danger of becoming a free-for-all - oil reconnaissance teams intent
on mass extraction, adventure travellers trailing waste across the
tundra, and multi-national interests covertly vying for influence.
But a new radical environmentalist group is determined to show
humanity that Antarctica cannot be plundered like the rest of the
world. Whatever it takes... Antarctica: an eco-thriller, a romance,
and a passionate study of a desolate continent. Against a majestic
backdrop, multi-award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson paints
his latest big picture by focusing on the personal triumphs and
tragedies of the innocents, the activists, and the ruthless
exploiters who are fighting their version of the future for Earth's
last great wilderness.
In his first sixty days, President Phil Chase intends to prove he
can change the world and solve climate change. A highly topical,
witty and entertaining science thriller - the follow-up to Forty
Days of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below. Frank Vanderwal, in the
office of Presidential science advisor, finds something reassuring
about the world being so messed up. It makes his own life look like
part of a trend. He's been homeless for a year, the ex-husband of
the love of his life did permanent injury to his nose - probably
his brain - with a punch, and the love of his life has had to go
into hiding from the secret service, which has Frank under
surveillance, too ... but meanwhile there's the world to save.
Frank's a scientist. He has to save the world so that science can
proceed, obviously. This has become known as the Frank Principle.
China is close to meltdown, the security agencies are in overdrive,
carbon figures are close to cooking the world ... and the team has
sixty days to establish a new reality.
Kim Stanley Robinson is at his visionary best in this gripping
cautionary tale of progress and its price as our world faces
catastrophic climate change - the sequel to Forty Signs of Rain.
Frank Vanderwal of the National Science Foundation in Washington,
DC has been living a paleolithic lifestyle in a tree house in Rock
Creek Park ever since a big flood of the Potomac destroyed his
apartment block. The flood was just the beginning. It heralded a
lot of bad-weather news. Now the Gulf Stream has shut down and the
Antarctic ice sheet is melting. The good news is that Frank is part
of an international effort by the National Science Foundation to
restabilize Earth's climate. He understands the necessity for
out-of-the-box thinking and he refuses to feel helpless before the
indifference of the politicians and capitalists who run America.
The bad news is that Frank has fallen in love - with a woman who is
not who she seems. He discovers that their first meeting was no
accident: he was on a list all along! Her ulterior motive is
political and she expects Frank to spy for her. And thus Frank is
drawn into the world of Homeland Security, and other, blacker
Washington security agencies as the presidential election year
heats up. Then suddenly it's winter ...It's winter like the ice
age, fifty degrees below. As hellish conditions disrupt the lives
of even the most important people, there is a convergence of
meteorological and human events with Frank at the centre -
catastrophe is in the air. This unforgettable story from the master
of alternate and future history brings tomorrow into new focus with
startling effect.
At the north pole of the planet Pluto there stands an icehenge
created out of slabs towering 200 feet above the crater-pocked
surface. The first mission to Pluto must ask themselves, is it an
alien message? Or could it mark a human mystery left by a crew who
might have passed decades ago?
It's hot in Washington. No sign of rain. The world's climates are
changing, catastrophe beckons, but no one in power is noticing.
Yet. Tom Wolfe meets Michael Crichton in this highly topical, witty
and entertaining science thriller. When the Arctic ice pack was
first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in
midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One
August the ice broke. The next year the break-up started in July.
The third year, it began in May. That was last year. It's an
increasingly steamy summer in America's capital as environmental
policy advisor Charlie Quibler cares for his young son, and deals
with the frustrating politics of global warming. According to the
President and his science advisor Dr S, the weather isn't
important! But Charlie must find a way to get a sceptical
administration to act before it's too late - and his progeny find
themselves living in Swamp World. Just arrived in Washington to
lobby the Senate for aid is an embassy from Khembalung, a sinking
island nation in the Bay of Bengal. Charlie's wife Anna, director
of bioinformatics at the National Science Foundation and well known
for her hyperrational intensity, is entranced by the Khembalis. By
contrast, her colleague, Frank Vanderwal, is equally cynical about
the Buddhists and the NSF. The profound effect the Khembali
ambassador has on both Charlie and Frank could never have been
predicted - unlike the abrupt, catastrophic climate change which is
about to transform everything. Forty Signs of Rain is an
unforgettable tale of survival which captures a world where even
the innocent pattern of rainfall resounds with the destiny of the
biosphere.
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Blue Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know....
The Years of Rice and Salt It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur–the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and salt.
This is a universe where the first ship to reach the New World travels across the Pacific Ocean from China and colonization spreads from west to east. This is a universe where the Industrial Revolution is triggered by the world’s greatest scientific minds–in India. This is a universe where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions and Christianity is merely a historical footnote.
Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson renders an immensely rich tapestry. Rewriting history and probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power, and even love on such an Earth. From the steppes of Asia to the shores of the Western Hemisphere, from the age of Akbar to the present and beyond, here is the stunning story of the creation of a new world.
From the Hardcover edition.
The dazzling novel from the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking
MARS trilogy follows Galileo on an amazing journey from the dawn of
the modern world to a future on the verge of a completely new
scientific breakthrough. Late Renaissance Italy abounds in alchemy
and Aristotle, yet it trembles on the brink of the modern world.
Galileo's new telescope encapsulates all the contradictions of this
emerging reality. Then one night a stranger presents a different
type of telescope for Galileo to peer through, enabling him to see
the world of humans three thousand years hence. Galileo will soon
find himself straddling two worlds, the medieval and the modern. By
day his life unfurls in early seventeenth century Italy; by night
he is transported through dimensions of time and space no other man
of his time could possibly comprehend. Inexorably, Galileo faces
trial for religious crimes in his own time, while in the new world
he discovers, where science assures men that they can perform
wonders, but does not tell them what wonders to perform, he is
revered. This sumptuous, gloriously thought-provoking and
suspenseful novel recalls Robinson's magnificent Mars books as well
as bringing to us Galileo as we have always wanted to know him.
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Green Mars (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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'Vivid and beautiful . . . Astonishing' - Guardian 'A thrilling
journey through an age of ice and stone - one of Kim Stanley
Robinson's best!' - Greg Bear An award-winning and bestselling SF
writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the
most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel,
2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with
his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the
Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's
development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal
of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to
his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership. An
extraordinary portrayal of life in the Palaeolithic era, 30,000
years into our past, by the multi-award-winning author described
recently by the Sunday Times as 'one of science fiction's greats'
Novels by Kim Stanley Robinson: Icehenge The Memory of Whiteness A
Short, Sharp Shock Antarctica The Years of Rice and Salt Galileo's
Dream 2312 Shaman Aurora New York 2140 Red Moon
Manuel de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel,
which includes a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story
of two children who survive the brutal destruction of Earth by
alien explorers. The protagonists, Alba and Dídac, retreat to the
forest, then journey to the rubble of Barcelona to rescue and
preserve the remnants of human civilization in the city’s bombed
libraries and cultural institutions. In the absence of the rule of
law and social norms, the children create a utopian world of two
that honors knowledge and interracial love, to become a new Adam
and Eve and try to bring about the world’s second origin. A
bestseller and required reading for secondary school students in
Catalonia, Typescript of the Second Origin is indispensable to
understand how a region of Spain whose language, culture, and
institutions were targeted and punished by Francisco Franco. At the
same time, Pedrolo’s tale of survival reaches beyond national and
cultural borders to offer contemporary international readers a
timely warning about the threat of global ecological destruction.
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Aurora (Paperback)
Kim Stanley Robinson
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'What a saga! Scifi with honest, complex humanity, physics,
biology, sociology' - Tom Hanks 'Aurora is a magnificent piece of
writing, certainly Robinson's best novel since his mighty Mars
trilogy, perhaps his best ever' - Guardian Our voyage from Earth
began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new
home. Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is
the work of a writer at the height of his powers. 'An accessible
novel packed with big ideas, wonders, jeopardy and, at the end, a
real emotional punch' SFX 'Aurora is Robinson's best book yet . . .
Heart-wrenching, provocative' Scientific American 'Kim Stanley
Robinson is one of science fiction's greats' Sunday Times Novels by
Kim Stanley Robinson: Icehenge The Memory of Whiteness A Short,
Sharp Shock Antarctica The Years of Rice and Salt Galileo's Dream
2312 Shaman Aurora New York 2140 Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada
mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that
encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as
if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and
scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned
to the mountains throughout his life-more than a hundred trips-and
has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra
is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an
exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most
compelling places on Earth. Over the course of a vivid and dramatic
narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the
Sierras and the history of its exploration, going back to the
indigenous peoples who made it home and whose traces can still be
found today. He celebrates the people whose ideas and actions
protected the High Sierra for future generations. He describes
uniquely beautiful hikes and the trails to be avoided. Robinson's
own life-altering events, defining relationships, and unforgettable
adventures form the narrative's spine. And he illuminates the human
communion with the wild and with the sublime, including the
personal growth that only seems to come from time spent outdoors.
The High Sierra is a gorgeous, absorbing immersion in a place, born
out of a desire to understand and share one of the greatest
rapture-inducing experiences our planet offers. Packed with maps,
gear advice, more than 100 breathtaking photos, and much more, it
will inspire veteran hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers to
prepare for a magnificent adventure.
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