Kim Stanley Robinson
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Short, Sharp Shock
A man out of time...
A man tumbles through wild surf, half-drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who was washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night, and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty - a mysterious watery landscape encircled by a thin spit of land.
…Is a man in deep water
In a perverse world of which he has no understanding, he must struggle to find the woman held hostage by a savage cannibalistic tribe. But he must also struggle to find himself, because he has no idea what he is, or why he's here.
Short Sharp Shock finds Robinson writing at the height of his imaginative powers. Moving, mystifying and exotic, this is a real page-turner with a fascinating conundrum at its very heart.
Voyager Classics
To celebrate the greatest works of science fiction and fantasy Voyager presents a collection of the most influential and respected titles of the past century. These 36 titles represent the very best in imaginative fiction. They have not only given enjoyment to millions of readers around the world but have challenged and changed perceptions of the genre.
Authors as varied as J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker and William Gibson have inspired generations of new writers and film-makers around the world.
‘If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for Science Fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’ New York Times Book Review
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The Martians
All The Colours Of 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, featuring many of the trilogy's central characters in events previously only hinted at in the novels. Added to this are works on Martian mythology, the Martian Constitution, scientific extracts and a series of Mars-inspired poems.
In short, The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson's oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the Red Planet.
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis to his work. He has won just about every major SF award there is to win and is the author of the global bestselling Mars series, the seminal sf work of the '90s.
'Robinson's mars trilogy has been recognized as one of the landmarks of sf in the 1990s, and the time may well come when it is regarded as one of the landmarks of American literature… The Martians is going to be sought after by the many admirers of the trilogy… These fragments capture much of the power of the novels: the lyrical descriptions of alien landscapes; the sense of awe at new scientific horizons; the impact of the frontier on human relationships' Times Literary Supplement
'A fine companion to a classic, fit to stand alongside anything Bradbury wrote. Mar(s)vellous!' Manchester Evening News
More Praise for Kim Stanley Robinson
'If you had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson' New York Times Book Review
'A beautiful book - to be lived in. Let most of it be true' Daily Telegraph
'One of the finest works of American sf' The Times
'Absorbing.. .impressive.. .fascinating… utterly plausible… The product of an imaginative love affair between the author and Earth's nearest planetary neighbour' Financial Times
'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail
'Staggering.. .required reading for the colonists of the next century' Arthur C. Clarke
'A multi-faceted reflection of the fears and desires of their age, our age - they make their market-place competitors look trivial' Guardian
'Robinson into what he's best at, the evocation of people in love, people at odds, the delicate inside surfaces of social involution...supremely achieved' Sunday Times
'A tour de force of adventure writing...The most important writer currently interested in real science...It is hard to put the book down. It is important, it is relevant, it gives us a huge new continent to imagine; and it is fun' Mail on Sunday
'Characteristically exquisite' Independent
'Memorable and wise. Robinson keeps the dangers and surprises coming up so quickly and excitingly' New Statesman
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Blue Mars
Blue Mars is the concluding volume in Kim Stanley Robinson’s monumental Mars trilogy which began with Red Mars and continued with Green Mars. The product of years of dedicated research, the series is a timeless masterpiece, the ultimate in future history.
Mars is now a living, breathing planet, resplendent with genetically engineered plants and animals living beside canals and teeming seas - an Eden to be envied. In this brave and buzzing new world the survivors of the First Hundred have become like walking myths to the Martian youth, but political schisms have hardened into polar opposites. And as civil war looms, an overpopulated Earth looks on bitterly. For many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for - perhaps even die for.
As the motives, desires and passions of the deftly-drawn characters evolve along with the planet they have made their home, Robinson brilliantly explores and interweaves the political, sociological, economic and scientific aspects of their terraforming effort in one of the twentieth century’s finest works of science fiction.
‘Blue Mars faultlessly details almost every thing about our neighbour planet transformed by human colonists; and takes the pulse of overcrowded, crisis-ridden earth… Robinson’s diction and vision are so precise. A beautiful book – to be lived in. let most of it be true’ Daily Telegraph
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The Memory of Whiteness
In the 33rd century humanity is scattered among the planets of the
Solar System. Millions of lives depend on the revolutionary
physics of Arthur Holywelkin; millions of hearts are moved by the music created by the strange, eerie instrument he built in the last years of his life: the Orchestra. Johannes Wright is the Ninth - and youngest - Master of the Orchestra. But as he sets out on his first Brand Tour of the Solar System, unseen foes are at his heel, ready to reveal all but the meaning of their enmity. In confronting them, Wright must redefine the Universe - for himself and all humanity.
'A symphony of ideas' Greg Bear
'an elegance that manages to contain a what-happens-next vigour… it makes astonishing connections' The Times
'A masterpiece' Analogue
'Rich and compelling' Interzone
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Short, Sharp Shock
(Voyager Pbk,
2000)
The Martians
(Voyager,
1999)
Voyager Pbk Apr 00
Blue Mars
(Voyager,
1996)
Voyager Pbk Oct 01
The Memory of Whiteness
(Macdonald,
1986)
Voyager Pbk Mar 99
Antarctica
Green Mars
Red Mars
Down and Out in the Year 2000
Escape from Kathmandu
Icehenge
Pacific Edge
The Gold Coast
The Wild shore
Short, Sharp Shock
