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	Pywrit.com - Kim Stanley Robinson Biography
		Robinson proudly defends the genre for which he is a passionate advocate.
		Robinson is an enthusiastic mountain climber, and this has clearly had a strong influence over several of his works, most notably Antarctica, Mars Trilogy, Green Mars (a short story found in The Martians) and Forty Signs of Rain.
		Robinson's fascination with science and technology is clear, though he balances this skillfully with a strong streak of humanity.
	www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfr/KimStanleyRobinson/KimStanleyRobinsonBio.htm (1124 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''Kim Stanley Robinson''' (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, best known for his award-winning Mars Trilogy and the author of over ten other novels as well as several short fiction collections, and a doctoral thesis on the novels of Philip K. Dick.
		Robinson's fiction frequently delves into ecological and utopian themes with a political sophistication and point of view rarely seen elsewhere in the field.
		Robinson's utopias are strikingly different in that the society portrayed is dynamic and subject to flaws and outside pressures, rather than the static perfection displayed in more classic utopias, in which literary values take a back seat to the political argument.
	kim-stanley-robinson.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (923 words)

	Strange Horizons Articles: Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, by Lynne Jamneck
		Kim Stanley Robinson is widely regarded as one of the best SF writers working today.
		Kim Stanley Robinson: The population will be between 7 and 10 billion, and I imagine it will be a time of considerable tension, as people struggle to get out of capitalism into something more sustainable and just, and to forestall any further damage to the environment.
		KSR: As Reagan-era SF I should think cyberpunk is done, but it might be argued that the Reagan revolution won so completely that it is still in control, and cyberpunk thus is still describing the moment it predicted and invoked all too well.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20050815/robinson-int-a.shtml (2668 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''Kim Stanley Robinson''' (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, best known for his award-winning Mars Trilogy as well as over ten other novels as well as several short fiction collections, and a doctoral thesis on the novels of Philip K. Dick.
		Robinson's writings explore political ideas which contain many elements of socialism and green politics, as well as many alternative lifestyles (including ones where non-monogamous relationships are commonplace).
		Robinson won Hugos for Green Mars and Blue Mars, Nebulas for Red Mars and "The Blind Geometer" (1986), a World Fantasy Award for "Black Air" (1983), and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Pacific Edge.''The Memory of Whiteness'' was awarded the Locus Award.
	kim-stanley-robinson.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1608 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kim Stanley Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois.
		Robinson's fascination with science and technology is clear, though he balances this with a strong streak of humanity.
		A recurring theme of Robinson's that returns in this series is that of Buddhist philosophy, this is represented in the series by the agency of ambassadors from Khembalung, a fictional Buddhist micro-state located on an offshore island in the Ganges delta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson (1997 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson
		The world which Robinson has brought vividly to life is this: Around 1984, the largest cities in the US were nuked, but for various reasons no retaliation was carried out.
		In a sense, it's Robinson's keen eye for realism (an admirable skill) which sinks the book; real life often seems to lack a point and seems rather unsatisfying, and this book is very realistic, given its premises.
		Robinson's researching skills are prodigious and impressive, but research alone cannot carry a novel.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/sf/robinson_kim_stanley (2642 words)

	Bantam Dell Publishing Group
		KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.
		Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award...
		Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling Red Mars, Green Mars, and the soon-to-be-published Blue Mars, was called "a literary...
	www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=25839 (547 words)

	Profile \| Kim Stanley Robinson
		Robinson's characters are often scientists or students of nature who are drawn into conflict with systems of profit and exploitation, joining social movements that, in Robinson's future and alternative histories, actually succeed in fundamentally changing society along ecological, egalitarian, and democratic lines.
		Robinson is routinely chastised in both science fiction and mainstream venues for embracing this political, utopian sensibility.
		Robinson's novels ask each of us to challenge exploitation and injustice, question what we believe and the way we live, and have the courage to create.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/ksrobinson.html (1731 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson Fifty Degrees Below Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Fifty Degrees Below' offers readers a heaping helping of down-to-earth human humor, served up with a side order of science as it is really practiced by said funny humans.
		The second section of Robinson's triptych novel is a marvelous combination of low-key humor and highly literate speculation about the practice of science as opposed to the nature of science.
		Robinson does superb job of taking the reader, one step at a time, from a desk-jockey existence to a wild life in the Washington's Rock Creek Park.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/robinson-fifty_degrees.htm (807 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson: Antarctica
		Robinson includes three main characters: X, an Antarctican everyman (?) who performs the menial labor at McMurdo Station, Val, X's ex-girlfriend who leads tourist expeditions into the Antarctic outback, and Wade Norton, a senatorial aide who is sent on a fact-finding mission to Antarctica in response to a series of hijackings.
		Robinson handles extraction crews, scientists, eco-warriors, and a band of Antarctic "aborigines" deftly as each explains how they are going to exploit Antarctica while leaving it a pure and uncontaminated continent.
		Part polemic and part travelogue, Robinson uses the last continent to explain why it is important for humans to be more in touch and careful about their abuse of the earth's resources and environment.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/antarctica.html (635 words)

	Borders - Feature - A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
		Kim Stanley Robinson's three tomes chronicling a future history of extra-terrestrial colonization, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars each won either Hugo or Nebula Awards.
		Kim Stanley Robinson: I've been interested in alternate histories since reading Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, my favorite of his novels and, in my opinion, one of the best SF novels ever written.
		KSR: They unfolded as I wrote the book, and as each chapter was sketched out and drafted, it set limits on what could then happen afterward, so that some choices were made for me by what I had chosen before.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=robinson (1150 words)

	Amazon.de: Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy): English Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robinson's speculations about physics, chemistry or biology, but at least the economic theory Robinson proposes is shallow, a collection of phrases and slogans and mixture of philosophies that creates the world he envisions.
		Robinson created the future as a land of hard science fiction - where it is science fiction, not science, that transforms the world.
		Robinson has succeeded on the same level, making the reader feel as if he is actually experiencing the fatigue of extreme old age...
	www.amazon.de /Blue-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553573357 (2304 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Robinson explores what-if of the future
		Robinson was referring to the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." In what should have been a classic example of positive synergy, the big-budget Hollywood flick was released at the same time as "Forty Signs of Rain," the first novel of Robinson's trilogy about the same subject: cascading catastrophes resulting from global warming.
		Robinson was in San Diego to promote "Forty Signs of Rain," and was visiting friends at UCSD, where he earned an undergraduate degree in English and American literature in 1974, and a Ph.D. in 1982.
		Although Robinson has won every major award in the genre of science fiction, he defines himself not as a science fiction writer (of any kind), but simply as a novelist.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040704-9999-1a4robinson.html (734 words)

	Amazon.de: Red Mars.: English Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.
		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.
		Kim Stanley Robinson beschreibt in diesem Buch den problematischen Weg der Kolonisierung des Marses und hÃ¤lt uns in absolut grandioseer Weise einen soziokulturellen Spiegel vor die Nase in dem wir gezwungen werden uns selbst zu erkennen.
	www.amazon.de /Red-Mars-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735 (1575 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Years of Rice and Salt
		Robinson, who mastered the art of the multi-generational epic in his award-winning Mars series, now looks at our own world as it might have been if the Black Death had killed 99 percent of Europeans.
		Robinson explores how history actually happens from the point of occurrence to the way in which the historical record is later perceived.
		Robinson has never been one to let minor difficulties such as death get in the way of his narrative engine.
	www.bookpage.com /0203bp/fiction/years_of_rice_salt.html (361 words)

	Utopic Fiction and the Mars Novels of Kim Stanley Robinson - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Although most leftists don't know it, Kim Stanley Robinson is one of America's best-selling and most visionary left-wing novelists.
		Robinson, however, inverts the cyberpunk sensibility, harnessing its technological obsessions to the pursuit of utopia on Mars.
		Robinson gets around the narrow and undemocratic implications of science fiction's traditional rule of scientists and engineers by quite logically making everyone on Mars a scientist or engineer--an elect lifted to heaven by their virtue (a millennial trope that utopianism can't seem to live without).
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001summer/robinson.shtml (1476 words)

	Amazon.ca: Blue Mars: Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robinson's achievement here is on a par with Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Herbert's Dune, even if his clinical detachment may leave some readers wondering whether there really is life on Mars.
		Robinson's recurring characters, the survivors of the "First Hundred" and their offspring, are memorable and fascinating.
		In Blue Mars Robinson speculates not only on what the future of the Fourth Planet may be like decades after colonization, but also delves into the future of intra-Solar System space flight, the future of medicine, as well as a whole host of other probable technologies.
	www.amazon.ca /Blue-Mars-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553573357 (1520 words)

	Amazon.com: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Robinson's prediction of a near future where a handful of democratically unaccountable transnational corporations wield more power than governments is neither unreasonable nor extremist propaganda nor unique; nor is it that people sick of these conditions might reject them for something Utopian, and might make up a sizable proportion of those wanting to leave Earth.
		Robinson's typical character has a dream, begins to pursue it, getting you inspired, then gets killed or just gives up and joins the cause he was fighting.
		Robinson is an excellent writer and this is an excellent trilogy, but the emphasis is on science.
	www.amazon.com /Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0553560735 (2395 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Kim Stanley Robinson
		Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Mars trilogy, is one of the most original and visionary writers of fiction today.
		Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is one of science fiction's most honored series, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo.
		Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the bestselling Red Mars, Green Mars, and the soon-to-be-published Blue Mars, was called "a literary landscape artist, creating breathtaking vistas" by The Detroit Metro News.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=25839 (1220 words)

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		Davis science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has swept the awards for his Mars trilogy and here's a safe prediction: His next novel, "Antarctica," will be an award-winner, too.
		Robinson hasn't decided whether he will include poetry in "Romance." But for the past two spring quarters he's been able to practice by sitting in on poet Gary Snyder's workshops.
		Robinson went to Antarctica in 1995 for six weeks, courtesy of the National Science Foundation.
	test.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/1997/antarctica.html (876 words)

	Kim Stanley Robinson
		Although colonising the nearest almost habitable planet is a frequent subject for science fiction, with more than 15 Mars books coming out in the last four years, one writer has dominated the red planet recently as much by the scale of his ideas and themes as by the scale of his Mars trilogy.
		But Mars certainly isn’t the only interest of the versatile Kim Stan Robinson (or Stan, as he’s referred to by everyone including himself) as Mary Branscombe found out and for all his skill in plot and character he clams to be the last to get plot twists on TV.
		Kim Stanley Robinson’s works cover a surprisingly wide range, from murder mystery short stories (set on Mercury) to the magical realism (or just magic) of Black Air, as well his more famous Californian novels - and of course the Mars books.
	www.sandm.co.uk /mary/sfjournm/Kim_Stanley_Robinson/kim_stanley_robinson.html (2460 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Antarctica: Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is Kim Stanley Robinson's first book since his award-winning Mars trilogy, and while some of the themes may be familiar to seasoned Robinson readers the book is never less than engrossing.
		As usual Robinson does a masterful job with the setting of his story, and anyone interested in Antarctica won't want to miss this one.
		Robinson's own experiences in the frozen continent shine through in this exhilirating prose.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Antarctica-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/000651264X (362 words)

	Chico News and Review January 12, 2006
		Robinson's newest work is a more ambitious cultural weapon in the global-warming wars.
		Robinson's latest fiction inquires into whether those scientists, politicians and others most determined to combat global warming can succeed in their efforts, even as they live their ordinary lives with children, romances and careers.
		The News & Review caught up with Kim Stanley Robinson in early December at one of his favorite local haunts, Bogey's Books in Davis, to talk about the new trilogy, the science underlying the fiction, his perspectives on climate change and capitalism, and writing in the era of global warming.
	www.newsreview.com /chico/Content?oid=oid:46182 (3782 words)

	Kim Robinson -- Recent and Upcoming Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kim Stanley Robinson virtually redefined science fiction with the Nebula Award-wining Red Mars and the Hugo Award-winning Green Mars.
		Kim Stanley Robinson has long been known for his excellent science fiction novels such as Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars.
		A second collection from Robinson (The Planet on the Table, 1986), this one comprising 14 tales (plus an unclassifiable fictional essay), 1986-91, whose general theme is the mutability of history.
	www.non.com /books/Robinson_Kim_r.html (1450 words)

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