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	Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is a writer initially identified as a leading member of the "humanist", or literary, camp of science fiction authors in the 1980s, but whose Mars trilogy is a solid example of hard science fiction.
		Three longer, humorous stories -- Robinson can be a very funny writer -- featuring American expatriates in Nepal are collected in Escape from Kathmandu (1989).
		Robinson received a Ph.D in English from the University of California, San Diego in 1982; his doctoral thesis was a study of the novels of Philip K. Dick, published in 1984 (The Novels of Philip K. Dick).
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Kim_Stanley_Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gold Coast portrays an overindustralised California increasingly obsessed with and dependent on technology and torn apart by the struggles between arms manufacturers and terrorists, while Pacific Edge presents a California in which ecologically sane, manageable practices have become the norm and the scars of the past are slowly being healed.
		By the conclusion of the story Mars is heavily populated and terraformed, with a flourishing and complex political and social dimension.
		In the Mars Trilogy, one of the principal divisions among the population of Mars is based upon dissenting views on terraforming; whether or not the seemingly barren Martian landscape has the same ecological or spiritual value of a living ecosphere like Earth's is heavily debated.
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	Three Californias Trilogy - TheBestLinks.com - Automobile, Dystopia, Green Party, Kim Stanley Robinson, ...
		The Three Californias Trilogy consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, that depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California (also known as Orange County Trilogy).
		The theme of the first chapters is that of a quite normal science fiction pastoral, which is deconstructed in the latter chapters, especially when it becomes clear that the post-nuclear war rural life is hindered to develop further by international treaties and the Japanese, patrolling the coast.
		From a literary critique point of view the broad descriptions of nature and landscape are of interest, as well as the self-references in regard to writing about utopian futures vs. actual political work.
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	Kim Stanley Robinson - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This trilogy is Robinson's masterpiece, and one of the finest works of hard science fiction published in recent years.
		Its three volumes are Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, the titles of which mark the changes which the red planet undergoes over the course of the story.
		Three longer, humorous stories featuring American expatriates in Nepal are collected in Escape from Kathmandu (1989), and as mentioned above The Martians further expolores the world of The Mars Trilogy.
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	John's Book Reviews: The Wild Shore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the first in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy, the one which I read last, and the strongest of the three.
		Now, three generations later, loosely assembled towns and villages live on the remnants of civilization, and build their own new communities.
		Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a trilogy of novels, all of which are centered around his home of Orange County, California.
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	Kim_Stanley_Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Much of the action is catalysed by the impending expiration of the Antarctic Treaty and the threat of invasion and despoiling of the near-pristine environment by corporate interests.
		The setting of this novel bears strong resemblances to that of the Mars trilogy, albeit with darker, more dystopean undertones.
		In the Mars Trilogy, one of the principle divisions among the population of Mars is based upon dissenting views on terraforming; whether or not the seemingly barren Martian landscape has the same ecological or spiritual value of a living ecosphere like Earth's is heavily debated.
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	Read about Kim Stanley Robinson at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Kim Stanley Robinson and learn about Kim Stanley ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mars Trilogy as well as over ten other novels as well as several short fiction collections, and a doctoral thesis on the novels of
		This trilogy is Robinson's masterpiece, and one of the finest works of
		Antartic Treaty and the threat of invasion and despoiling of the near-pristine environment by corporate interests.
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	BookThink - Collecting Science Fiction - Kim Stanley Robinson- Good Things Comes in Threes
		The Wild Shore proved to be the first installment in the Three Californias trilogy (also known as the Orange County trilogy), along with The Gold Coast (New York: St. Martins, 1988; $15), and Pacific Edge (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990; $10).
		Each book in the Three Californias trilogy presents a different view of the same Southern California locale, representing three possible futures.
		A sprawling work chronicling the colonization and terraforming of Mars, this trilogy is a detailed examination of the profound changes humans bring to the planet and the more subtle changes the planet, in return, elicits in the humans living there.
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	The Gold Coast : Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Some of Robinson's most acclaimed works are the novels from his "Three Californias" trilogy: enjoy a new presentation of works reprinted in a trade paperback edition.
		This puts the three linked novels into proper perspective and explores the underlying message presented by the Southern California stories.
		Part of Robinson's "Three Californias" triptych, this book is set in a future Orange County where economic development has continued unabated, supplanting the region's natural beauty with a vast suburban sprawl.
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	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gold Coast is the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy.
		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.
		Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy -- The Gold Coast, The Wild Shore and Pacific Edge -- has been observed as "an intriguing work, one that will delight and entertain you, and, most importantly, cause you to stop and think" (The Santa Ana Register).
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	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		His novels to date are: the Three Californias trilogy, composed of The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific Edge (1990); the Mars trilogy, made up of Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993) and
		Parts of Forty Signs are set in California, evoking its splendid coastal landscapes and the public-service ethic of your alma mater, the University of California at San Diego.
		I mean, living in California feels like being in a fishbowl to an extent, and on the edge of history and all that.
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	Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		The Mars trilogy is a different case, in that it begins in an empty space, physically and historically, and is occupied first by a small group of highly educated people.
		NG: The Mars Trilogy, with its eventual moving reconciliation of Green and Red tendencies, seems to be very much concerned (most notably after the Second Revolution has succeeded) with the necessity of moderation, of compromise in matters of rigid conviction.
		This definition is somewhat redundant to the obvious one of "science fiction takes place in the future", but it helps in some cases to clarify the science fiction/fantasy boundary, and explains sub-genres like the alternative history, which otherwise are not obvious in their connection to sf set in the future.
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	Pacific Edge : Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Taken together, the books of the trilogy invite interesting comparisons or their several worlds, but separately each is a completely independent, excellent story.
		I enjoyed the first 2 of KSR's "Three Californias," but this one was disappointing (see my reviews).
		This book is part of Robinson's 'Three Californias" triptych about alternate futures seen from the perspective of Orange County, California.
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	John's Book Reviews: Pacific Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This book is a part of Robinson's Three Californias trilogy, presenting three different futures for Orange County; nuclear war, environmental decay, or ecotopia.
		The book is set in 2065, after a slow and progressive socialist revolution has swept through America and some other countries.
		Complex issues of California water and environmental policy, growth, money and small-town interpersonal conflict are involved in this story.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~jmcd/book/revs/pced.html (276 words)

	Compassionate Capitalism
		For more than a century already--really since the industrial revolution-- historians, sociologists, philosophers and politicians have all been analyzing how size, automation and the concentration of capital lead to the alienation of workers from their employers and from the enterprise itself.
		Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer whose trilogy, Three Californias, gives alternate views of the American future: one post-nuclear, one dystopian, one utopian.
		The last of the three envisions a world of small democratic capitalisms, in which, for example, I might wake up one morning and decide that what I really want to do for a living is build houses.
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	Kim Stanley Robinson
		Robinson is an enthusiastic mountain climber, and this has clearly had a strong influence over several of his works, most notably Antarctica,
		Robinson's most recent work, Forty Signs of Rain (2004) has been billed as the first volume of a near-future trilogy, known as the "Science in the Capital" series, exploring the consequences of
		The Orange County Trilogyis about the way in which the technological intersects with the natural, highlighting the importance of keeping the two in balance.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Pacific Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		I am a big KSR fan, and enjoyed the first two volumes of this triptych, but this novel was very disappointing.
		It seems as if Robinson set out in the beginning to write three novels, he had three concepts in mind, but when it came time to write this one, the concept was still there but the passion was gone and the ideas were lacking.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812500563 (1295 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		Three space refugees seek help from the mysterious Momma Mercy.
		This is part of the SFBC Collection, and has ISBN 1-56865-261-5; there is a special price of $2.98 with any purchase.
		This is being published “simultaneously” with the Ace edition listed three months ago.
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	Kim Robinson -- All Books
		The three award-winning stories in this volume take the listener into the realms of space adventure, science fantasy, and interstellar irony.
		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.
		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.
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	Kim Robinson -- Recent and Upcoming Books
		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.
		The story is part mystery and part psychological drama, divided into three distinct sections.
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	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.
		In those books, and in his earlier Three Californias trilogy, he imagined what would happen if the boundaries by which we currently live our lives were radically altered—by colonizing Mars in the former series, and by nuclear holocaust in the latter.
		My main source of information was Moe's Used Books in Berkeley, California, where I bought whatever looked interesting for many years.
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	Alibris: Orange
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		From the author of the award-winning Red Mars comes the second book in the groundbreaking "Three Californias Trilogy".
		The second novel in author Robinson's acclaimed Three Californias series is set slightly further into the future and looks at the problems of the re-industrialization--including pollution, corruption, and so on--of the West Coast, after the fallout from a nuclear war has settled.
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	prohibitive! 2003 04 17
		But while we were looking for the next books to read, someone mentioned Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, which I loved immensely.
		Robinson is probably my favorite science fiction author ever since I read his Three Californias trilogy, so it occurred to me, hey, there are so many SF authors out there these days who are putting out weblogs, maybe Robinson's joined the crowd?
		However, I was able to find this interview he did shortly after the publication of his third Mars book, and then I recently read this thoughtful travel article Robinson wrote.
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	THE TOR BOOKS FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wheel of Time series, all three of which are the work of ace freelancer Rob Kilheffer.
		The subsequent volumes haven't been published, but the series isn't dead; the authors are working on the second book, and there's been a reported sighting of some fifty pages of manuscript.
		The Conan Chronicles is an omnibus collection of the first three: Conan the Invincible, Conan the Defender, and Conan the Unconquered.
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	rhythmism - Attn book worms (Need a good summer book to read.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Just when it seemed cyberspace was wearing out its welcome, along comes this fresh and powerfully imagined new take on the coming video revolution.
		In the ratings-hungry entertainment world of near-future New York City, Alex Munn is a rising young "xtv" producer whose forthcoming virtual realitybased series, "Real Life", promises soap opera junkies full interactivity in three dimensions.
		Already bored by the show's cliched characters and predictable plots, Munn spends increasingly more time on his unsponsored pet project, "Munn's World", a crime drama that tracks a serial killer through the seamy underworld of 1850s Manhattan.
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	Books, Listed by Author
		A limited hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available and a leatherbound deluxe edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen.
		This is a signed special leatherbound gilt-edge edition that is being published “simultaneously” with the Tor hardcover listed three months ago.
		* _Pacific Edge (Tor/Orb 0-312-89038-9, Jul ’95 [Jun ’95], $13.95, 326pp, tp, cover by Tony Roberts) [Orange County] Reprint (Unwin Hyman 1990) SF novel, third in the “Three Californias” trilogy.
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	Amazon.com: The Gold Coast : Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the 2nd item in The Three Californias Series.
		Jim McPherson sticks his head out the window of his care, shouts at a Minihonda whose program has just automatically slotted it onto the onramp ahead of him.
		Pacific Edge : Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Robinson
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	Powell's Books - Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Three Californias Series) by Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gold Coast : Three Californias (88 Edition) by Kim Stanley Robinson
		Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy — The Gold Coast, The Wild Shore and Pacific Edge — has been observed as "an intriguing work, one that will delight and entertain you, and, most importantly, cause you to stop and think" (The Santa Ana Register).
		His many other novels include Escape from Kathmandu and Green Mars — which won the Hugo and Locus Award for Best Novel.
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	Powell's Books - The Wild Shore: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pacific Edge : Three Californias (95 Edition) by Kim Stanley Robinson
		Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson
		But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be--and dreams of playing a crucial role in America's rebirth.
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