Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in Orange County, California on March 23, 1952. He received a B. A. and Ph. D. from the University of California at San Diego and an M. A. from Boston University. His first trilogy of books, Orange County, collectively won a Nebula Award and two Hugo Awards. His other toon meer works include the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. He has won an Asimov Award, a World Fantasy Award, a Locus Reader's Poll Award, and a John W. Campbell Award. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Kim Stanley Robinson
Nebula Awards Showcase 2002: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy (2002) — Redacteur — 92 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge (2020) 60 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
A Martian Romance 10 exemplaren
Green Mars [short fiction] 10 exemplaren
Mother Goddess of the World [short fiction] 6 exemplaren
Blue Mars and The Martians 5 exemplaren
Our Town 4 exemplaren
2013 4 exemplaren
Exploring Fossil Canyon 3 exemplaren
The blind geometer ; The return from Rainbow Bridge 3 exemplaren
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Four Teleological Tales {short story} 2 exemplaren
Michel in Antarctica {short story} 2 exemplaren
To Leave a Mark 2 exemplaren
Odessa {short story} 2 exemplaren
Enough Is As Good As a Feast {short story} 2 exemplaren
What Matters {short story} 2 exemplaren
Big Man in Love {short story} 2 exemplaren
Saving Noctis Dam {short story} 2 exemplaren
Keeping the Flame {short story} 2 exemplaren
Coyote Remembers {short story} 2 exemplaren
Sax Moments {short story} 2 exemplaren
Purple Mars {short story} 2 exemplaren
The Constitution of Mars 2 exemplaren
Jackie on Zo {short story} 2 exemplaren
Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsia Brevia {short story} 2 exemplaren
The Archaea Plot {short story} 2 exemplaren
Michel in Provence {short story} 2 exemplaren
Maya and Desmond {short story} 2 exemplaren
Salt and Fresh {short story} 2 exemplaren
The Way the Land Spoke to Us {short story} 2 exemplaren
La costa del Pacifico (Urania Jumbo) 1 exemplaar
Sixty Days 1 exemplaar
Lisière du Pacifique 1 exemplaar
Chaman 1 exemplaar
La costa delle palme (Urania Jumbo) 1 exemplaar
An Afterword To Philip K. Dick's Valis 1 exemplaar
The True Nature of Shangri-La [short story] 1 exemplaar
Icehenge [short story] 1 exemplaar
How Science Saved the World 1 exemplaar
In Pierson's Orchestra 1 exemplaar
The Mars Trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars AND The Martians (The Mars Trilogy, 1-3 plus The Martians) (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Memorial (short story) 1 exemplaar
The Kingdom Underground 1 exemplaar
A Story 1 exemplaar
On the North Pole of Pluto 1 exemplaar
Galileo Science Fiction & Fantasy nr. 4 1 exemplaar
The Names of the Canals {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Soundtrack {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Part of Us That Loves {short story} 1 exemplaar
Rainbow Bridge {short story} 1 exemplaar
A Transect {short story} 1 exemplaar
New Scientist Sci-fi Special 1 exemplaar
Anarchism's Possibilities 1 exemplaar
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It starts dramatically, with the evocation of an extreme heat wave in 2025 (so, again this is science fiction) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh that killed millions of people. This sets in motion a train of radical measures and the creation of a Ministry for the Future that will put pressure on nation states and the international system on behalf of future generations. Robinson mainly follows the leadership of that institute, based in Zurich, and in this way we get a picture of very diverse problems facing the world: not only the technological issue of reducing the CO2 level in the atmosphere and prevent the further melting of glaciers and Arctic ice, but also fiscal and monetary measures to encourage more environmentally conscious behavior, strategies to promote small-scale ecological approaches, and so on and so forth. The number of angles that Robinson provides is really impressive. And in particular he points to the pernicious influence of existing ideologies and religions, the opposition by nation states and vested interests, and the legacy of capitalism and post-colonialism. A truly kaleidoscopic approach.
Formally, Robinson has spread this over more than 100 relatively short chapter, sometimes following certain protagonists, other times presenting passionate pamphlets, and even boring conference reports or didactic expositions. That demands quite something from the reader, especially because Robinson is clearly not a real literary writer. But he offers a lot of variety, and also interweaves enough fictional elements to make it completely digestible, especially through the story of the Irish Mary, the chairwoman of the Ministry for the Future, and Frank, an American who was traumatized by the heat wave in India and emerges as an eco-terrorist; the friendship between the two is one of the nicer aspects of this novel. The evolution over time, from approximately 2025 to approximately 2050, also supports the narrative element.
The main issue is that it requires some suspension of disbelief, frankly quite a lot. I especially had a hard time with the aspect that the Ministry for the Future has a secret department that uses eco-terrorists to kill hundreds of top bankers, oil company and aircraft magnates. And the biggest problem is that in this novel a significant drop in the CO2 content in the atmosphere already was noted after just over 20 years, as a result of the many measures. Scientifically, this is downright nonsense (and there are other, smaller scientific errors in this book). This immediately brings us to the most crucial issue in the debate on the fight against global warming: can it be won with technology and technical interventions? This book contains an essay that asks the question “is technology driving world history?”, and at first glance Robinson seems quite naïve to support that statement. But it is precisely through his very kaleidoscopic approach to the climate issue that he shows that only a very broad mix of measures and approaches in very different domains can provide relief. If this novel contributes anything to this extremely important debate, it is this very valuable message.… (meer)