[alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 29 (last modified 2002-05-19)
Jeandré
version 29 CE 2002-05-19 16:10 GMT
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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)
1. Who is KSR?
Arguably the best hard sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley "Stan" Robinson,
born in 1952. He has won the following awards: SF Chronicle (twice), World
fantasy, Locus poll (five times), Nebula (twice), Asimov's readers' poll,
John W. Campbell memorial, British Science Fiction, and Hugo (twice). 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?
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"
* 1977 "The thing itself" (in Clarion SF)
* 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 (Locus poll best first novel award) (Three
Californias)
* 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"
(World fantasy award, SF Chronicle novelette award)
* 1987 "The blind geometer" (Nebula novella award) (in the Down and out
in the year 2000 collection)
* 1987 "The memorial" (in the In the field of fire collection)
* 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" (Asimov's
reader's poll novella award), 1989 "The kingdom underground"
* 1990 Pacific edge (John W. Campbell memorial award) (Three
Californias)
* 1990 A short, sharp shock (Locus poll novella award)
* 1991 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" revised, 1988
"Remaking history", 1991 "Vinland the dream" (SF Chronicle short story
award), 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", 1987 "Our town", 1986 "A transect", 1988 "The
lunatics", 1990 "Zürich"
* 1992 "I go to Mars"
* 1992 "Red Mars" (in Interzone 1992-09)
*
* 1992 Red Mars (book 1 of the Mars trilogy) (Nebula award, British
Science Fiction novel award)
* 1994 "A Martian childhood" (in Asimov's Science Fiction 1994-02)
* 1994 Green Mars (Hugo award, Locus poll award) (book 2 of the Mars
trilogy)
* 1996 Blue Mars (Hugo award, Locus poll award) (book 3 of the Mars
trilogy)
* 1996 "The psychic landscape"
* 1997 Antarctica
* 1999 The Martians (Locus poll best collection award): "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", 1999
"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", 1999 "Sexual dimorphism",
"Enough is as good as a feast", "What matters", "Coyote remembers", "Sax
moments", 1999 "A Martian romance", "If Wang Wei lived on Mars", "Purple
Mars"
* 2002 The years of rice and salt (working titles: Road from Samakand,
A world without Europe)
* 2003 Science in the capital (2003-03-24)
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
Sitc - Science in the capital, not "Science in the capital"
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
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/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Buy books online
http://www.noamazon.com/
Eco-fiction
http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm
Fora
http://pub25.ezboard.com/fthedemimondefrm1
Interviews
http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue01/KSR.html
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-02/04/11.00.books
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html
http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/2002/robinson_chat.html
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm
http://www.zone-sf.com/ksrobinson.html
KSR
http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.net/
M3 information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/
sf info
http://www.sff.net/
Tyoras excerpt
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?&salesurl=Rwww%2E
bn%2Ecom%2F&isbn=0553109200&displayonly=excerpt
--
Jeandré (I don't email from Malaysia)
http://go.to/ksr/
"Grief seeps in us / Like a blotter takes ink" - Kim Stanley Robinson
Jeandré
>http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?&salesurl=Rwww%2E
>bn%2Ecom%2F&isbn=0553109200&displayonly=excerpt
http://shorterlink.com/?b43v1l
--
Jeandré
Jeandré
version 30 CE 2002-05-26 21:45 GMT
Sitc - Science in the capital
Mt information
http://deltos.com/reference/mars/
sf info
http://www.sff.net/
Tyoras excerpt
Jeandré
science, operating out of the corrupt political heart of the developed
world In the interface between big science and big business lies the
potential for the absolute destruction or salvation of our world, as
new discoveries open ever more remarkable doorways into the future.
And while good intentions may underlie the science that leads to these
discoveries, human greed, on an individual, political or corporate
basis, will always seek a way to exploit each and every new
development. Combining superb narrative and beautiful writing, these
will not only be highly entertaining thrillers but will also offer the
reader a privileged insight into and greater understanding of the
bigger picture and how the jigsaw pieces of science, politics and
business operate in the modern world. The events of the books will
focus on: a science-industrial spy, based in part on the amazing
multiple-lives of FBI spy Ronald Hansen; a US patent office lawyer; a
venture capitalist; a Washington lobbyist; a Congressional aide; a
Buddhist scientist, recently arrived in the West; a Senator and
several scientists at a biotech lab outside Washington: and the
storylines will include births, deaths, marriages and murder, as well
as all the political, scientific and espionage elements: life on the
micro, as well as the macro, level." -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007148860/202-6250188-1915830
Jan Vanek jr.
> Arguably the best hard sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley "Stan"
[...]
> A newsgroup for hard sf fans, specifically, the works of KSR. Please
It may be just a personal taste, but I am not too happy with using the
term "hard SF" for describing KSR; I think it, in its most frequent
usage, means something rather more physics-laden (and right-wing) then
KSR's work.
> * 2003 Science in the capital (2003-03-24)
According to Amazon, it has been postponed to 21 July.
> * Delany, Russ, Stanislaw Lem, Boris Natanovi Strugatskii, Arkadii
> Natan Strugatskii.
It should be Natanovich for both (their common patronymic).
Best,
--
Jan Vanek jr. Jan . Vanek . jr @ seznam . cz
"Ever done LSD?"
"Well, we were in the Army. That's almost like LSD."
Neal Stephenson, _The Big U_
Arkady
> [...]
> > A newsgroup for hard sf fans, specifically, the works of KSR. Please
>
> It may be just a personal taste, but I am not too happy with using the
> term "hard SF" for describing KSR; I think it, in its most frequent
> usage, means something rather more physics-laden (and right-wing) then
> KSR's work.
Hard sci-fi means heavily science-based, it need mean nothing more.
Arky
Jeandré
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Contents
1. What does abbreviation x mean?
2. Who is KSR?
3. What is afksr?
4. What has KSR published?
5. Can you recommend any other authors?
6. What does word x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?
9. How has this FAQ changed?
(<http://IamJacksWebsite.cjb.net/ksr.html> only)
1. 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 answered questions
* GM - Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
* KSR - Kim Stanley Robinson
* Mt - Mars trilogy: RM, GM, and BM
* Tyoras - The years of rice and salt
* RGB - Mt
* RM - Red Mars
* Sitc - Science in the capital
2. Who is KSR?
Arguably the best [hard] sf writer of our time, Kim Stanley "Stan"
Robinson, born in 1952. He has won the following awards: SF Chronicle
(twice), World fantasy, Locus poll (five times), Nebula (twice),
Asimov's readers' poll, John W. Campbell memorial, British Science
Fiction, and Hugo (twice). He is famous for his Mars trilogy.
3. 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.
4. What has KSR published?
* 2002 The years of rice and salt (working titles: N jbeyq jvgubhg
Rhebcr and Road from Samakand)
* 2003 Science in the capital (2003-06-21) (book 1 of the science
business trilogy)
5. 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 Natanovich Strugatskii,
Arkadii Natanovich 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.
6. 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
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
Aubrey M. Smith, Jeandré, Matt Davis, and others.
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/isfdb-bin/exact_author.cgi?Kim_Stanley_Robinson>
Eco-fiction
<http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_13/13_stan.htm>
Fora
<http://pub25.ezboard.com/fthedemimondefrm1>
<news:alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson>
Interviews
<http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue01/KSR.html>
<http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-02/04/11.00.books>
<http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/interview.html>
<http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/2002/robinson_chat.html>
<http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus/nonfiction/intksr.htm>
<http://www.zone-sf.com/ksrobinson.html>
KSR
<http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.net/>
M3 information
<http://deltos.com/reference/mars/>
Places to buy books online
<http://www.noamazon.com/>
Jeandré
>term "hard SF" for describing KSR; I think it, in its most frequent
>usage, means something rather more physics-laden (and right-wing) then
>KSR's work.
I've always thought of "hard sf" as sf based on science, as apposed to
fantasy/pulp future/speculative fiction. If the scientific method is
emphasized (and things like reincarnation is only given the amount of
support equal to evidence available for it), and logical fallacies
avoided, then whether it's math, physics, cosmology... doesn't matter
to me. I've changed "hard sf" to "[hard] sf" in the FAQ, but not in
the post headers (the summary uses "hard", and the faq is curently
archive in sf/hard/kim-stanley-robinson/faq). Discuss.
>> * 2003 Science in the capital (2003-03-24)
>
>According to Amazon, it has been postponed to 21 July.
>
>> Boris Natanovi Strugatskii, Arkadii Natan Strugatskii.
>> -- FAQ
>
>It should be Natanovich for both (their common patronymic).
>-- Jan Vanek jr.
Fixed, thanks. Can I add your name and/or email to the contributors
list in the FAQ?
Aubrey Michael Smith
WHOA, where did Arky come from all of the sudden?? Have you been back
for a while and this is the first I've noticed, or did you just post
this all casually as if you haven't been gone for like a year or two?
;)
Aubrey Michael Smith
RE: The "hard sf" discussion,
I've read interviews with KSR in which he said that he prefers just
regular "science fiction" without a qualifier.
I get the impression that this is because he is proud to be a science
fiction writer and feels like terms like "hard sf" are like an excuse,
like "No, I'm not really sci-fi, I'm hard sci-fi."
So that might be something to put in the FAQ, that KSR himself
actually prefers regular old "science fiction."
Jeandré
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Contents
1. What does abbreviation x mean?
2. Who is KSR?
3. What is afksr?
4. What has KSR published?
5. Can you recommend any other authors?
6. What does word x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?
9. How has this FAQ changed? (on the website)
1. 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 answered questions
GM
Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
KSR
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mt
Mars trilogy: RM, GM, and BM
Tyoras
The years of rice and salt
RGB
Mt
RM
Red Mars
Sitc
Science in the capital, not "Science in the capital"
areobotany
(Ares) Martian (botany) plant biology
areoformation
how people are changed by Mars (see Terraforming)
areophany
adoration of Mars
giri
Japanese: "responsibility"
Senzeni Na
Japanese: "What have we done?"
Shikata ga nai
Japanese: "the only possible thing"
Terraforming
changing something to support Terran life
viriditas
Mt information
<http://deltos.com/reference/mars/>
Places to buy books online
<http://www.noamazon.com/>
sf info
<http://www.sff.net/>
Tyoras excerpt
<http://shorterlink.com/?b43v1l>
--
Jeandré
<http://iamjackswebsite.cjb.net/ksr.html>
Jeandré
Jeandré
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Contents
1. What does abbreviation x mean?
2. Who is KSR?
3. What is afksr?
4. What has KSR published?
5. Can you recommend any other authors?
6. What does word x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?
9. How has this FAQ changed? (on the website)
1. 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 answered questions
GM - Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
KSR - Kim Stanley Robinson
Mt - Mars trilogy: RM, GM, and BM
Tyoras - The years of rice and salt
RGB - Mt
RM - Red Mars
Sitc - Science in the capital, not "Science in the capital"
areobotany - (Ares) Martian (botany) plant biology
areoformation - how people are changed by Mars (see Terraforming)
areophany - adoration of Mars
giri - Japanese: "responsibility"
Senzeni Na - Japanese: "What have we done?"
Shikata ga nai - Japanese: "the only possible thing"
Terraforming - changing something to support Terran life
viriditas - the color of growing grass, energy of natural growth
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Jeandré
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Contents
1. What does abbreviation x mean?
2. Who is KSR?
3. What is afksr?
4. What has KSR published?
5. Can you recommend any other authors?
6. What does word x mean?
7. Who contributed to this FAQ?
8. Got any relevant links?
9. How has this FAQ changed? (on the website)
1. 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 answered questions
GM
Green Mars, not "Green Mars"
KSR
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mt
Mars trilogy: RM, GM, and BM
Tyoras
The years of rice and salt
RGB
Mt
RM
Red Mars
Sitc
(Ares) Martian (botany) plant biology
areoformation
how people are changed by Mars (see Terraforming)
areophany
adoration of Mars
giri
Japanese: "responsibility"
Senzeni Na
Japanese: "What have we done?"
Shikata ga nai
Japanese: "the only possible thing"
Terraforming
changing something to support Terran life
viriditas
<ma...@jack.p5.org.uk>
<http://jack.p5.org.uk/ksr/faq.html>
Matt Davis
[...]
> 4. What has KSR published?
> * 2003 Science in the capital (2003-06-21) (book 1 of the science
> business trilogy)
According to Amazon UK this has been renamed to "The Capital Code:
Book One" and had it's release date changed to 1/Sept/03. The PB
version is now due on 5/Apr/04
Amazon US still hasn't picked it up.
Matt
Jeandré
>> business trilogy)
>
> According to Amazon UK this has been renamed to "The Capital Code:
> Book One" and had it's release date changed to 1/Sept/03. The PB
> version is now due on 5/Apr/04
> Amazon US still hasn't picked it up.
Thanks Matt.
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007148879/qid=1043968562/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/026-9507626-8347601>
gives 2003-09-01 as the paperback release date also, probably a
mistake.
Version 35 of the FAQ will also have the following link to "A history
of the twentieth century, with illustrations":
<http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/history.htm">.
Can I update your email address on the XHTML version of the FAQ?
Matt Davis
> >> * 2003 Science in the capital (2003-06-21) (book 1 of the science
> >> business trilogy)
> >> -- Jeandré
> >
> > According to Amazon UK this has been renamed to "The Capital Code:
> > Book One" and had it's release date changed to 1/Sept/03. The PB
> > version is now due on 5/Apr/04
> > Amazon US still hasn't picked it up.
> > -- Matt Davis
>
> Thanks Matt.
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007148879/qid=1043968562/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/026-9507626-8347601>
> gives 2003-09-01 as the paperback release date also, probably a
> mistake.
If this is the same arrangement as for TYORAS (and there's no reason
to asume otherwise) this is the "Commonwealth" C format PB which is
next to impossible to get hold of in the UK. I'm pretty sure that the
TYORAS version had the same cover and would have had the same leaves
inside; just bound differently.
> Can I update your email address on the XHTML version of the FAQ?
Yes please, thanks.
Matt
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* 2003-09-01 The capital code: book one (book 1 of the science
business trilogy) (working title: Science in the capital)
<http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intksr.htm>
<http://www.zone-sf.com/ksrobinson.html>
KSR
<http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.net/>
Mt information
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwb/rgbmars.html>
RM <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/marsindx.html>
<http://deltos.com/reference/mars/>
Stories online
"A history of the twentieth century, with illustrations" (revised?)
<http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/history.htm>
Matt Davis
> [...]
> > * 2003 Science in the capital (2003-06-21) (book 1 of the science
> > business trilogy)
>
> According to Amazon UK this has been renamed to "The Capital Code:
> Book One" and had it's release date changed to 1/Sept/03. The PB
> version is now due on 5/Apr/04
>
> Amazon US still hasn't picked it up.
To reply to myself, the release date for the hardback (and C format
pb) has been moved again, to 5/Jan/04. The A format pb still says
5/Apr/04, but this will no doubt change.
And no, still no news on the US edition.
Matt
Jeandré
* 2004-01-05 The capital code: book one (book 1 of the science