For a grasp of human nature applicable to the West: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal and [William Kittredge]'s The Nature of Generosity. For an understanding of deep-time continental history and what the fate of previous empires in the American West can teach us: Charles Mann's 1491, Jared Diamond's Collapse, and David Stuart's Anasazi America. For a sense of the career of the greatest public servant in Western history, Donald Worster's River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Po well. For a critical look at how an activist federal government might tackle a great environmental crisis: Worster's Dust Bowl, and Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy of global warming novels, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting. For the best modern understanding of Western history ...
Galileo's Dream," by Kim Stanley Robinson, Spectra, 544 pages, $26 With his high-bandwidth imagination and mad research skills, Kim Stanley Robinson mastered the terraforming of the Red Planet in his Mars trilogy, and the re-creation of world history without Christianity and European hegemony in "The Years of Rice and Salt.
To get you in the right mood for the job ahead, I suggest you start by reading Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry. You won't stop laughing for weeks and you'll be endeared to the West and some of its unruly inhabitants. Immediately following I would read any of [Rick Bass]' works - either his fiction or his non - for the sheer humanity and grace. The Lives of Rocks is a good choice, as is The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness and then, perhaps, if you could, you could finally protect his beloved Yaak Valley in upper Montana. That would be great. Next up: For its wisdom and clarity, I hope you'll read Linda Hasselstrom's Between Grass and Sky and then Alexandra Fuller's new book, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant. Good to know about the land and what's being done to it. Resistance by Barry L...
...Good luck. Writer: Stanley Crawford. - garlic farmer, novelist and author of ...: Worster's Dust Bowl and Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy of global warming novels, Forty Signs of...
While most high school freshmen obsessed over girls, football and MTV, [Alex Moore] found his passion on another planet. At age 14, the Canonsburg native was inspired by the novel Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, to launch redcolony.com, a Web site dedicated to the colonization of Mars. With the help of two friends, Moore the built the site into one of the Internet's most comprehensive Mars colonization sites, with 82 articles, some written by NASA scientists, on establishing a home for humanity on the Red Planet. Now a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh, Moore still spends an hour each day updating the site. Usually, it's people writing science papers for high school. They are usually interested in the science-fiction aspects of it. Will there be galactic battles between p...
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... John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars with people's every day lives....
Robinson, best known for his Mars trilogy, is the author of...Independent (UK) EXCELLENT . "Kim Stanley Robinson's novel about the events leading to Galil...
As a reader, I want both the novels and the nonfiction books I read to pull me into another world and keep me there until I close their covers. Here's a dozen books published in 2010 that did just that for me. Don't call it a top 10 list. Call it something more modest and, I hope, more helpful: a selection of books that I read and personally recommend to you.
..."Galileo's Dream" (Spectra, $26): Kim Stanley Robinson re- creates the great Italian scientist G...
...The Years of Rice and Salt . By Kim Stanley Robinson (2002) . * HUGO AWAR D FOR BEST NOVEL NOM...
[SAM DIENER]: In an interview in Science fiction Studies, you said, "What's hard is imagining any plausible way of getting from here to there." One fundamental problem is how to scale up cooperatives in the context of a capitalist system which creates destructive incentives. In Sixty Days of Rain, the new reformminded President certainly is concerned about these issues. Yet these utopian aspects are just getting cranked up at the end of the novel. Might you return to this series in order to address some of the issues of how to scale up cooperatives and how to transition away from capitalism towards the eco-economic democracy you're pointing towards? Or might this be a theme of a future book? SAM DIENER: You told one interviewer, "I think of us as all living in an enormous science fictio...
...MM STANLEY ROBINSON: It's best to consider this matter proacr...
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