Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
105
result(s) for
"Robinson, Kim Stanley"
Sort by:
2312
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. But a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.
Book
Realism, Modernism, and the Future: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
From CORMAC MCCARTHY’S The Road (2006) to PAOLO BACIGALUPI’S The Windup Girl (2009) and from ROLAND EMMERICH’S The Day After Tomorrow (2004) to NEILL BLOMKAMP’S District 9 (2009), speculative fiction and film tend to envision future breakdowns of democratic governance, justice, education, health systems, and civic awareness far more often than societies that are improved over present ones in any but a narrow technological sense. The Science in the Capital trilogy—Forty Signs of Rain (2004), Fifty Degrees Below (2005), and Sixty Days and Counting (2007)—portrays the world-wide consequences of climate change as well as the struggles that accompany the translation of science into meaningful public policy—struggles that in this set of novels end on a moderately hopeful vision of progressive politics in Washington. [...]Robinson is best known for Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1994), and Blue Mars (1996), a trilogy that traces the terraforming of Mars and the development of a multicultural, conflictive, and ambiguously utopian society on the Red Planet, even as Earth remains prone to military conflict, corporate exploitation, and ecological degradation. The Mars Trilogy not only traces a detailed outline of the ecological and eco-political challenges of terraforming that obliquely reflects on current debates about environmental politics on Earth; it also seeks to portray the social, cultural, and political turmoil and compromises that arise in the colonization of another planet not so much by humans understood as a homogeneous group, but by Americans, Arabs, Japanese, Russians, Swiss and many other groups that bring very different histories and traditions of how to organize society to bear on the emergent Martian communities.
Journal Article
Red moon
\"It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler. Finally, there is Chan Qi. Daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return home to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything - on the moon, and on Earth\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Prometheus unbound, at last
Robinson discusses her novel, Fifty Degrees Below. The novel postulates that science as an ongoing utopian proto-political experiment poorly theorized as such and lacking a paradigm within which to exert power in human affairs commensurate with its actual productive capacity and life maintenance critically.
Journal Article
Remarks on Utopia in the Age of Climate Change
Kim Stanley Robinson gives an account of his utopian novels and evaluates the current moment for its utopian potential and utopian opportunities.
Journal Article