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FAQ alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson

version 20 CE 2001-07-03 23:46 GMT

Posted weekly, and available at http://go.to/ksr/
Post suggestions on afksr or email them to k...@go.to
Contents

1. Who is KSR?
2. About the afksr community
3. Biblio
4. Other recommended authors
5. Vocab
6. KSR quotes
7. Frequently used afksr abbreviations
8. FAQ contributors
9. Links
10. FAQ version history (http://go.to/ksr/ only)

1. Who is KSR?
Arguably the best hard sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley "Stan"
Robinson, born in 1952, has won the Hugo, Nebula, Asimov, John W.
Campbell, Locus, and World fantasy awards. He is famous for his Mars
trilogy.

2. About the afksr community
We're hard sf fans. Feel free to ask questions, but please remember to
include the word "spoiler" in the subject and body of messages that
have information that may give away important plots.

3. Biblio
The following lists KSRs' novels and short stories. Short stories are
listed only once and with the following collection priority: 1: The
planet on the table, 2: Remaking history and other stories, 3: Down
and out in the year 2000.
* 1976 "In Pierson's orchestra"
* 1979 Sense and science
* 1984 The novels of Philip K. Dick
* 1984 Icehenge: 1980 "On the north pole of Pluto", 1982 "To leave
a mark"
* 1984 The wild shore (Three Californias) (Hugo award and Nebula
award nominations)
* 1985 The memory of whiteness
* 1986 The planet on the table: 1981 "Venice drowned", 1983 "Stone
eggs", 1984 "Ridge running", 1985 "Mercurial", 1984 "The lucky
strike", 1977 "The disguise", 1976 "Coming back to Dixieland", 1983
"Black air" (Asimov, John W. Campbell, Locus, and World fantasy
awards)
* 1987 "The memorial"
* 1988 The gold coast (Three Californias)
* 1989 Escape from Kathmandu: 1986 "Escape from Kathmandu", 1989
"The true nature of Shangri-La", 1987 "Mother Goddess of the world",
1989 "The kingdom underground"
* 1990 Pacific edge (Three Californias)
* 1992 Down and out in the year 2000: 1986 "The blind geometer"
(Nebula award), 1990 "A short, sharp shock"
* 1992 "I go to Mars"
* 1992 Red Mars (book 1 of the Mars trilogy)
* 1994 Remaking history and other stories: 1988 "The part of us
that loves" revised, 1990 "The translator", 1989 "Before I wake", 1991
"A history of the twentieth century, with illustrations", 1988
"Remaking history", 1991 "Vinland the dream", 1987 "The return from
Rainbow Bridge", 1991 "Muir on Shasta", 1988 "Glacier", 1991 "A
sensitive dependence on initial conditions", 1986 "Down and out in the
year 2000", 1986 "Our town", 1986 "A transect", 1988 "The lunatics",
1990 "Zürich"
* 1994 "A Martian childhood"
* 1994 Green Mars (book 2 of the Mars trilogy) (Hugo award)
* 1996 Blue Mars (book 3 of the Mars trilogy)
* 1996 "The psychic landscape"
* 1997 Antarctica
* 1999 The Martians: "Michel in Antarctica", 1982 "Exploring
Fossil Canyon", "The Archaea plot", "The way the land spoke to us",
"Maya and Desmond", "Four teleological trails", "Coyote makes
trouble", "Michel in Provence", 1985 "Green Mars", "Arthur Sternbach
brings the curveball to Mars", "Salt and fresh", "The constitution of
Mars", "Some worknotes and commentary on the constitution, by
Charlotte Dorsa Brevia", "Jackie and Zo", "Keeping the flame", "Saving
Noctis dam", "Big Man in love", "An argument for the deployment of all
safe terraforming technologies", "Selected abstracts from The journal
of Areological studies, vols.56-64", "Odessa", "Sexual dimorphism",
"Enough is as good as a feast", "What matters", "Coyote remembers",
"Sax moments", "A Martian romance", "If Wang Wei lived on Mars",
"Purple Mars"
* 2002 Road from Samakand (hard: 2002-02-04) aka A world without
Europe (paperback: 2003-01-05)
* unkn The Martian companion

4. Other recommended authors
SR's:
* Terry Bisson, Philip Kindred Dick, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin,
Charles Sheffield, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe.
* Delany, Russ, Stanislaw Lem, Boris Natanovi Strugatskii, Arkadii
Natan Strugatskii.
* Albert Camus, Alejo Carpentier, Joyce Cary, Joseph Conrad,
Lawrence Durrell, John Fowles, Garcia Marquez, Cecelia Holland, Peter
Matthiessen, Patrick O'Brian, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia
Woolf.
* Stevens, Snyder, Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, Derek Walcott.
Mars/Antarctica:

* Ben Bova's Mars and Return to Mars
* Stephen Baxter's Voyage
Environment:
* Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Hard sf:
*

5. Vocab
* areobotany - (Ares) Martian (botany) plant biology
* areoformation - how people are changed by Mars
* areophany - adoration of Mars
* giri - Japanese: responsibility
* Senzeni Na - Japanese: "What have we done?"
* Shikata ga nai - Japanese: the only possible thing
* terraforming - how something is changed to support Terran live
* viriditas - the color of growing grass, energy of natural growth

6. KSR quotes
In general I don't like the idea of a writer fitting all his works
into a single fictional history. It sacrifices new thinking to a
generally unimportant consistency.

7. Frequently used afksr abbreviations
3C: Three Californias a.k.a. Orange county triptych: The wild shore,
The gold coast, Pacific edge
AWWE: A world without Europe
afksr: alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson
BM: Blue Mars
FAQ: frequently asked questions
GM: Green Mars, rarely "Green Mars"
KSR: Kim Stanley Robinson
M3: The Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
M4: M3 and The Martians
M5: M4 and The Martian companion
MT: M3
RGB Mars: M3
RM: Red Mars

8. FAQ contributors
Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré, Jeff Carlson, Travis M Phillips

9. Links
Antarctica
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/col21.html
Bibliographies
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kim_Stanley_Robinson.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/lists/ksr.htm
Interviews
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm
Eco-fiction
http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm
M3 information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/
sf info
http://www.sff.net/
Buy books online
http://www.noamazon.com/

--
Jeandré
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Jeandré

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version 21 CE 2001-07-08 15:00 GMT

Posted weekly, and available at http://go.to/ksr/
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Contents
1. Who is KSR?
2. About the afksr community
3. Biblio
4. Other recommended authors
5. Vocab
6. KSR quotes
7. Frequently used afksr abbreviations
8. FAQ contributors
9. Links
10. FAQ version history (http://go.to/ksr/ only)

1. Who is KSR?
Arguably the best hard sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley
"Stan" Robinson, born in 1952, has won the Hugo, Nebula,
Asimov, John W. Campbell, Locus, and World fantasy awards.
He is famous for his Mars trilogy.

2. About the afksr community

Please remember to include "[spoiler]" in the subject and

4. Other recommended authors
KSR's:

Jeandré

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3C Three Californias: The wild shore, The gold coast, Pacific edge


afksr alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson
BM Blue Mars
FAQ frequently asked questions

GM Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
KSR Kim Stanley Robinson
Mt Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
RfS Road from Samakand
RGB Mars Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars

Jeandré

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"Grief seeps in us / Like a blotter takes ink" - Kim Stanley Robinson

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* Hal Clement
* Arthur C Clarke
* Fred Hoyle
* Greg Bear
* Greg Egan
* Geoffrey A Landis

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version 25 CE 2001-08-12 20:30 GMT

* 2002 The years of rice and salt (hardcover: 2002-02-04, or
2002-04-02) (paperback: 2003-01-05) Working titles: Road from
Samakand, A world without Europe

tyoras The years of rice and salt


RGB Mars Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars
RM Red Mars

8. FAQ contributors
Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré, Jeff Carlson, Travis M Phillips

9. Links
Antarctica
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/col21.html
Bibliographies
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kim_Stanley_Robinson.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/lists/ksr.htm
Interviews
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm
Eco-fiction
http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm
M3 information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/
sf info
http://www.sff.net/
Buy books online
http://www.noamazon.com/
--
Jeandré

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//The *.answers crosspost seem to have gone astray

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//My Xnews posts to the *.answers groups don't seem to go thru,
//so here's the post with Free Agent

[alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ

version 26 CE 2001-10-28 15:20 GMT

Posted weekly, and available at http://go.to/ksr/
Post suggestions on alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson or email them to
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Contents
1. Who is KSR?

2. What is afksr?
3. What has KSR published?
4. Can you recommend any other authors?
5. What does word x mean?
6. What does abbreviation x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?

1. Who is KSR?
Arguably the best hard sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley "Stan"
Robinson,
born in 1952, has won the Hugo, Nebula, Asimov, John W. Campbell,
Locus,
and World fantasy awards. He is famous for his Mars trilogy.

2. What is afksr?
A newsgroup for hard sf fans, specifically, the works of KSR. Please
remember to include [spoiler] in the subject (which shouldn't be a
spoiler
either) and body of messages that have information that may give away
important plot points. Lbh pna nyfb EBG13 fcbvyref.

3. What has KSR published?

4. Can you recommend any other authors?
Favourites of KSR:


* Terry Bisson, Philip Kindred Dick, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin,
Charles
Sheffield, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe.
* Delany, Russ, Stanislaw Lem, Boris Natanovi Strugatskii, Arkadii

Natan Strugatskii.
* Albert Camus, Alejo Carpentier, Joyce Cary, Joseph Conrad,
Lawrence
Durrell, John Fowles, Garcia Marquez, Cecelia Holland, Peter
Matthiessen,
Patrick O'Brian, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf.
* Stevens, Snyder, Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, Derek Walcott.

5. What does word x mean?


* areobotany - (Ares) Martian (botany) plant biology
* areoformation - how people are changed by Mars
* areophany - adoration of Mars
* giri - Japanese: responsibility
* Senzeni Na - Japanese: "What have we done?"
* Shikata ga nai - Japanese: the only possible thing
* terraforming - how something is changed to support Terran live
* viriditas - the color of growing grass, energy of natural growth

6. What does abbreviation x mean?
3C - Three Californias: The wild shore, The gold coast, Pacific edge
afksr - alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson
BM - Blue Mars
FAQ - frequently asked questions
GM - Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
KSR - Kim Stanley Robinson
Mt - Mars trilogy: RM, GM, BM
Tyoras - The years of rice and salt
RGB - Mt
RM - Red Mars

7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré

8. Got any relevant links?


Antarctica
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/col21.html
Bibliographies
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kim_Stanley_Robinson.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/lists/ksr.htm
Interviews
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm
Eco-fiction
http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm
M3 information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/
sf info
http://www.sff.net/
Buy books online
http://www.noamazon.com/
--

Jeandré (I don't email from Malaysia)

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2002-04-02) (paperback: 2003-01-05) Working titles: Road from

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//xnews post to answers froups seems to have failed again

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[alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ

version 27 CE 2002-02-10 00:00 GMT

Posted weekly, and available at http://go.to/ksr/
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Contents
1. Who is KSR?
2. What is afksr?
3. What has KSR published?
4. Can you recommend any other authors?
5. What does word x mean?
6. What does abbreviation x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?

9. How has this FAQ changed? (http://go.to/ksr/ only)

* 2002 The years of rice and salt (working titles: Road from
Samakand, A world without Europe)
* unkn [Unknown future Washington novel]

Jeandré

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>7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
>Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré

Matt, can I add your name and/or email addy to the FAQ for the changes
in version 27?

MATTHEW DAVIS

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"Jeandré" <jea...@techie.com> wrote in message
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> >7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
> >Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré
>
> Matt, can I add your name and/or email addy to the FAQ for the changes
> in version 27?

By all means to both.
Wow, my name in an FAQ :)
--
Matt Davis


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Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré, Matt Davis

8. Got any relevant links?
Antarctica
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/col21.html

Archive of afksr on Google
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson&hl=en

Bibliographies
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Kim_Stanley_Robinson.htm
http://www.sfsite.com/lists/ksr.htm

Buy books online
http://www.noamazon.com/

Eco-fiction
http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm

Interviews
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-02/04/11.00.books
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm

M3 information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/

sf info
http://www.sff.net/

Tyoras excerpt
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?&salesurl=Rwww%2Ebn%2Ecom%2F&isbn=0553109200&displayonly=excerpt

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