Kim Stanley Robinson, Arnie Fenner (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published October 1990
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A Short, Sharp Shock
Kim Stanley Robinson / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1996
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Kim Stanley Robinson, justly famous for his science fiction, has created a mesmerizing fantasy work in A Short, Sharp Shock. Each brief chapter (with evocative titles such as Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness) explores a little further along the path of the amnesiac protagonist, Thel. Thel finds himself on an amazing world, which has just one narrow ridge of land encircling the globe, with endless ocean on either side. And Thel is on a quest, searching for the woman who was with him when he first awakened, but who was taken by the murderous spine kings. In his travels along the ri...
AntarcticaKim Stanley Robinson / Hardcover / Published August 1998
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In the near future, Wade Norton has been sent to Antarctica by Senator Phil Chase to investigate rumors of environmental sabotage. He arrives on the frozen continent and immediately begins making contact with the various scientific and political factions that comprise Antarctic society. What he finds is an interesting blend of inhabitants who don't always mesh well but who all share a common love of Antarctica and a fierce devotion to their life there. He also begins to uncover layers of Antarctic culture that have been kept hidden from the rest of the world, and some of them are dangerous ind...
AntarcticaKim Stanley Robinson / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1999
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"Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes...echoes Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air."
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published July 1997
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Kim Stanley Robinson virtually redefined science fiction with the Nebula Award-wining Red Mars and the Hugo Award-winning Green Mars. This spellbinding third book in his Mars trilogy, garnered stellar reviews upon its hardcover publication and further established Robinson as a singular voice in the genre. In this tale, the Martian civilization faces the ultimate test, as a plan to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet causes passions, rivalries, and friendships to explode. National ads, including USA Today. Online promo.
Escape from KathmanduKim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published date unknown
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Worldwide bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy 'Laugh-out-loud funny.' (Washington Post) 'A delightful romp.'(Publishers Weekly)
Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Expected June 2000
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Future Primitive : The New EcotopiasKim Stanley Robinson(Editor) / Paperback / Published July 1997
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Kim Stanley Robinson has long been known for his excellent science fiction novels such as Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars. Here he turns his hand toward editing, with a collection of stories by writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Pat Murphy, and Terry Bisson. These are stories of a future where wet technology has replaced hard: silicon chips have given way to DNA strands, and the industrial high tech has been subsumed by environmental high tech. While all of these fine stories have been printed elsewhere, collected together they comprise a formidable and fas...
Green MarsKim Stanley Robinson / Mass Market Paperback / Published June 1995
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One generation after the first pioneers begin to transform Mars into an Earthlike planet, the first grown children born on Mars, led by Peter Clayborne, rebel against colonization in an effort to preserve Mars's natural state. Reprint. PW. NYT.
IcehengeKim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published June 1998
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Voted one of the best science fiction novels of the year in the 1985 Locus Poll, Icehenge is an early novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (author of the trilogy comprising Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) and takes place in the same universe. The story is part mystery and part psychological drama, divided into three distinct sections.
Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published June 1995
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Each of the novels in Robinson's "Three Californias" trilogy uses the same setting--Orange County in Southern California--but each envisions a radically different future. Pacific Edge shows readers a place transformed by the "green" politics of environmental awareness--"a bittersweet utopia that may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future" (New York Times Book Review).
Red MarsKim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published November 1993
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Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.
Remaking History and Other StoriesKim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published October 1994
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This omnibus volume collects two of Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed short story collections--Remaking History and The Planet On the Table--into a single volume. "Robinson's narrative technique is impressive, and the richness of his concepts and language is extraordinary."--Booklist
The Gold Coast (Three Californias)Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published June 1995
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From the author of the award-winning Red Mars comes the second book in the groundbreaking "Three Californias Trilogy." The Gold Coast presents a nightmarish urban future of uncontrolled, ruthless development which "celebrates . . . the persistent joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut" (Washington Post Book World).
The Martians (Bantam Spectra Book)Kim Stanley Robinson / Hardcover / Published August 1999
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The Martians is a collection of stories, alternate histories, poems, and even the complete text of a planetary constitution based on Kim Stanley Robinson's award-winning Mars trilogy (composed of Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars). For those unfamiliar with the series, The Martians from the title are the humans who have colonized and terraformed the Red Planet over the course of several generations. While Robinson told their story at considerable length in his novels, The Martians fleshes out some of his more interesting characters and also adds depth to their world.
The Memory of WhitenessKim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published March 1996
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Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published June 1989
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The Wild Shore (Three Californias)Kim Stanley Robinson / Paperback / Published May 1995
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The author of the award-winning Red Mars and its sequel Green Mars offers a vision of a radically different alternative future in the first volume of his highly acclaimed "Three Californias" trilogy. The Wild Shore tells the story of a young man coming of age on the Pacific coast in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war.