Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in Orange County, California on March 23, 1952. He received a B. A. and Ph. D. from the University of California at San Diego and an M. A. from Boston University. His first trilogy of books, Orange County, collectively won a Nebula Award and two Hugo Awards. His other mehr anzeigen works include the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. He has won an Asimov Award, a World Fantasy Award, a Locus Reader's Poll Award, and a John W. Campbell Award. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Red Mars / Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1-2) 21 Exemplare
Green Mars [short fiction] 10 Exemplare
A Martian Romance 10 Exemplare
Glacier [short fiction] 7 Exemplare
The Lunatics [short fiction] 7 Exemplare
Escape from Kathmandu {novella} 7 Exemplare
Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars 7 Exemplare
Sexual Dimorphism 6 Exemplare
Mother Goddess of the World [short fiction] 6 Exemplare
Remaking History [short story] 5 Exemplare
Before I Wake 5 Exemplare
Blue Mars and The Martians 5 Exemplare
2013 4 Exemplare
Our Town 4 Exemplare
Prometheus Unbound, At Last 3 Exemplare
Exploring Fossil Canyon 3 Exemplare
Zurich 3 Exemplare
Discovering Life 3 Exemplare
The Translator 3 Exemplare
The Way the Land Spoke to Us {short story} 2 Exemplare
Maya and Desmond {short story} 2 Exemplare
Four Teleological Tales {short story} 2 Exemplare
Coyote Makes Trouble {short story} 2 Exemplare
Michel in Provence {short story} 2 Exemplare
Salt and Fresh {short story} 2 Exemplare
The Constitution of Mars 2 Exemplare
Some Worknotes and Commentary on the Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsia Brevia {short story} 2 Exemplare
Jackie on Zo {short story} 2 Exemplare
Keeping the Flame {short story} 2 Exemplare
Saving Noctis Dam {short story} 2 Exemplare
Big Man in Love {short story} 2 Exemplare
Odessa {short story} 2 Exemplare
To Leave a Mark 2 Exemplare
What Matters {short story} 2 Exemplare
Coyote Remembers {short story} 2 Exemplare
Michel in Antarctica {short story} 2 Exemplare
Sax Moments {short story} 2 Exemplare
Purple Mars {short story} 2 Exemplare
Enough Is As Good As a Feast {short story} 2 Exemplare
The Archaea Plot {short story} 2 Exemplare
Chaman 1 Exemplar
Framtidsministeriet 1 Exemplar
Sixty Days 1 Exemplar
La costa del Pacifico (Urania Jumbo) 1 Exemplar
La costa delle palme (Urania Jumbo) 1 Exemplar
Lisière du Pacifique 1 Exemplar
How Science Saved the World 1 Exemplar
New Scientist Sci-fi Special 1 Exemplar
An Afterword To Philip K. Dick's Valis 1 Exemplar
The Memorial (short story) 1 Exemplar
On the North Pole of Pluto 1 Exemplar
The True Nature of Shangri-La [short story] 1 Exemplar
The Kingdom Underground 1 Exemplar
Icehenge [short story] 1 Exemplar
In Pierson's Orchestra 1 Exemplar
The Mars Trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars AND The Martians (The Mars Trilogy, 1-3 plus The Martians) (1990) 1 Exemplar
A Story 1 Exemplar
Galileo Science Fiction & Fantasy nr. 4 1 Exemplar
The Names of the Canals {short story} 1 Exemplar
The Soundtrack {short story} 1 Exemplar
The Part of Us That Loves {short story} 1 Exemplar
Rainbow Bridge {short story} 1 Exemplar
A Transect {short story} 1 Exemplar
Anarchism's Possibilities 1 Exemplar
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Mitwirkender — 513 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Mitwirkender — 317 Exemplare
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Mitwirkender — 151 Exemplare
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Mitwirkender — 125 Exemplare
Alternate Americas (What Might Have Been, Vol. 4) (1992) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 99 Exemplare
Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (1996) — Mitwirkender — 82 Exemplare
Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution (1995) — Mitwirkender — 75 Exemplare
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Mitwirkender — 64 Exemplare
Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1994) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Mitwirkender — 60 Exemplare
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Mitwirkender — 55 Exemplare
Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (2010) — Mitwirkender — 48 Exemplare
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! Stories of Crime, Love, and Rebellion (2011) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare
Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 23, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1999] (1999) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Hiroshima soll leben. Die schönsten Alternativwelt- Geschichten. (1993) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1982, Vol. 63, No. 5 (1982) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 12 [December 1989] (1989) — Autor — 12 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1990, Vol. 78, No. 3 (1990) — Autor — 12 Exemplare
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction — Vorwort — 10 Exemplare
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (2022) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Science Fiction — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Locus Nr.492 2002.01 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Mondaugen — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- University of California, San Diego (BA - Literature)
Boston University (MA - English)
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- Hugo Award (1994), (1997)
Nebula Award (1986), (1993)
World Fantasy Award (1983)
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I keep coming back to the writing of KSR because I like his choice of subjects. Musing on life thirty thousand years ago is a worthwhile meditation. That said, I often feel let down be the KSR's methodically plodding prose.
My wish was that "Shaman" would be a deeply weird book, like a myth. Many myths feels too peculiar to have been manufactured; no matter how many times you hear them, they remain inscrutable, growing more mysterious with each passing year. "Shaman" does not have this sense of mystery to it. Although there are animist elements to the book, and moments of mystery, they do not form the black whole at the center of the book's galaxy.
For example, the story begins with a passage dripping with terror at the end of of the protagonist's vision fast where he is being pursued by a humanoid but beastly entity. Given the dark power of the haunting vision, one might think that it would be an anchor point for the rest of the book. Instead, not only does KSR leave this vision languishing, at the end of the book, the protagonist's teacher dispels any weight the vision might have had by saying a neighboring shaman probably dressed up as this geist, and not to make anything of it.
KSR continues to sidestep potentially potent core themes. Our protagonist has a child, but very little is made of this seemingly significant life chapter. Although shamans are said to be healers, our protagonist spends almost none of his time doing healing work.
To make matters worse, the bulk of the book is taken up when our protagonist's life is sidetracked by the kidnapping of his wife and his subsequent enslavement. Like many of the social norms in the book, this trope of slavery seems to have more to do with modern social norms than with inspired archeology and anthropology. KSR is perpetually projecting contemporary bigotry onto our ancient ancestors; for example, monogamous relationship guarded by jealousy. If I'm reading a book set thirty thousand years in the past, I don't want any of the social norms to feel familiar—otherwise the book should just be contemporary.
The one other major flaw of the plot involves an incident of cannibalism perpetrated against a friendly and helpful Neanderthal. The plot point feels entirely unnecessary (do we need more fiction justifying cannibalism?), and also comes across as racist (if they had to eat someone, why did it have to be the only Neanderthal whose name we learn?).
Despite the let downs of "Shaman," I have not given up on Late Pleistocene fiction. Next up: "Reindeer Moon" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.… (mehr)