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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Kim_Stanley_Robinson |
 | | It is not a trilogy in the traditional sense; rather than telling a single story, the books present three very different yet equally possible future worlds. | | | The setting of this novel bears strong resemblances to that of the Mars trilogy, albeit with darker, more dystopian undertones. | | | The tale begins with the first colonists leaving Earth for Mars in 2027, and covers the next 200 years of future history. |
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http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Kim_Stanley_Robinson
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| | BookThink - Collecting Science Fiction - Kim Stanley Robinson- Good Things Comes in Threes |
| | A strong argument could be made that the books of the Three Californias trilogy roughly parallel the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. | | | 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. | | | Each book in the Three Californias trilogy presents a different view of the same Southern California locale, representing three possible futures. |
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http://www.bookthink.com/0021/21rob.htm
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| | John's Book Reviews: The Wild Shore |
| | He talks so much, in fact, about the day to day lives of his characters, that all three books drag quite a lot. | | | Familiarity with the place makes the books enjoyable page-turners, despite their drawbacks. | | | The books suffer from one failing of prognostication. |
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http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs/twis.html
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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. | | | Robinson's writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre, and the last sentences of the book generate a soaring optimism. | | | Things are complicated when Alfredo's longtime lover leaves him, a woman with whom Kevin's been in love since the two were kids. |
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http://www.x8a.net/us-reviewed/0312890389.html
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| | THE TOR BOOKS FAQ |
| | Submit only the first three chapters of your book, and a synopsis of the entire book. | | | The Conan Chronicles is an omnibus collection of the first three: Conan the Invincible, Conan the Defender, and Conan the Unconquered. | | | 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. |
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| | Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction |
| | 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. | | | Much of this is related indirectly, but the Trinidad-Tobago scenes try to tell it directly as well, in a kind of case study. | | | While the connected novellas in Escape from Kathmandu (1989) deal amusingly with Himalayan mountaineers and their encounters with the marvellous, The Martians (1999) illumines and recomplicates the materials of the Mars trilogy. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intksr.htm
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| | Science Fiction Weekly Interview |
| | Your detailed dramatizations of procedures at the National Science Foundation, along with your parallel descriptions of working life at a California biotech firm, offer fascinating insights into the differences between science as a public endeavor and science as a private, profit-oriented enterprise. | | | They think, "Anything would be better, anything would be worth a try." Maybe the "anything" one of these times will be something that really is better. | | | Robinson: The trilogy and Antarctica take place in the same future history. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue351/interview.html
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | This is a signed special leatherbound gilt-edge edition that is being published “simultaneously” with the Tor hardcover listed three months ago. | | | This follows the Bantam Spectra edition seen in June. | | | * +Blue Mars (Bantam Spectra 0-553-10144-7, Jul ’96 [Jun ’96], $22.95, 609pp, hc, cover by Don Dixon) [Mars] SF novel, third book of a trilogy about the colonization and terraforming of Mars. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/b403.html
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| | John's Book Reviews: Pacific Edge |
| | 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 would be less interesting, though, if it were not set deep in the next century. | | | The book is set in 2065, after a slow and progressive socialist revolution has swept through America and some other countries. |
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http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~jmcd/book/revs/pced.html
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| | Jim's book catalog |
| | The electrifying finale to the most award-winning and bestselling SF trilogy to appear in years--the sequel to Red Mars and Green Mars. | | | Three centuries later, humans pursuing Berserkers uncover what this deed has wrought. | | | 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. |
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | This is being published “simultaneously” with the Ace edition listed three months ago. | | | The Ernest Callenbach story is original to this volume. | | | 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. |
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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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http://www.speakeasy.org/~prohibit/index.cgi/2003/04/17
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| | Borders - Feature - A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson |
| | Beyond that little bit, I knew next to nothing about Asian religions. | | | 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. | | | I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, although what I like about Zen is that it is about behavior and not book learning, a way of thinking and paying attention. |
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| | Compassionate Capitalism |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | Book Information - Northshire Bookstore - Manchester Center, Vermont |
| | A native Californian, he is the author of the Nebula Award-winning Red Mars and several other highly regarded SF novels, including his acclaimed Three Californias trilogy. | | | George and Freds will go on to greater heights as they explore the mysteries of Nepal, from Shangri-La to Kathmandu's governmental bureaucracy. |
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