The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson Author:Kim Stanley Robinson, Jonathan Strahan (Editor) Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries -- these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through themes of environmental sustainability, social ... more »justice, personal responsibility, sports, adventure, and fun, Robinson's protagonists explore a world which stands in sharp contrast to many of the traditional locales and mores of science fiction, presenting instead a world in which Utopia rests within our grasp.
These twenty-two stories, including the Nebula Award-winning "The Blind Geometer," and World Fantasy Award winner "Black Air" represent The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Contents: Venice Drowned, Ridge Running, Before I Wake, Black Air, The Lucky Strike, A Sensitive Dependence of Initial Conditions, Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars, The Blind Geometer, Our town, Escape from Kathmandu, Remaking History, The Translator, Glacier, The Lunatics, Zurich, Vinland the Dream, "A History of the 20th Century, with Illustrations", Muir on Shasta, Sexual Dimorphism, "Prometheus Unbound, At Last.", and "The Tympanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942".
In an afterword at the end of the book, Robinson has provided short notes on all the stories.« less