See also here for an interview with Schneider-Mayerson.Īlso, the Three Californiasor Orange Countytrilogy is getting a re-release by Tor Essentials! The omnibus of some of KSR's first novels pile up to some 800 pages. That is almost a night-and-day situation from 15 years ago.įor more KSR writings: University of Minnesota Press has released An Ecotopian Lexicon by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy (editors), looking at new words and concepts to describe our new anthropocenic situation, and it contains a Foreword by Robinson. If we do deal with it, all kinds of other good will happen from dealing with it. If we don’t deal with it, we’re inhorrific trouble. There is more awareness of climate change as the overriding issue of our time. If I had made up the Paris Agreement in a science-fiction story 10 years before it happened, which I did not, everyone would have just laughed at me as a utopian, but that really happened. It has changed enormously and in a good direction. How do you think the government’s or the public’s views of climate change have shifted since you wrote that book? Robinson favours actions with multiple benefits, from growing more forests, to supporting women’s rights around the world and making agriculture “a carbon-negative business”.Ĭontinuing on the same trend, KSR gets coverage in no less than The Wall Street Journal! " A Sci-Fi Author’s Boldest Vision of Climate Change: Surviving It" (paywall.). Yet interventions suggested by technophiles, such as sucking carbon out of the atmosphere with hi-tech “vacuum cleaners”, are equally problematic. The radical left’s position of leaving the remaining wilderness entirely alone won’t work, he argues, as climate change requires management. “There’s what I call the technocrat class, a kind of HG Wells scientific meritocracy, and it’s for them to advise the political class: this will work, this won’t work, try that,” he says.įailing to consult the technocrats can lead to “lunatic” suggestions, Robinson has found. “My utopia has reached this low bar: if we avoid a mass extinction event, then, ‘Yay! Leave it at that.’” “What the hell do we write at this point in history?” he asks. With the climate emergency becoming a more and more important issue, what can a novelist do? and what can a science fiction writer in particular do? and what does it mean to be a "pragmatic optimist" today? KSR was interviewed by the New Statesman: " What the hell do we write now?". The lovely cover illustration by Tom Killion is pictured above.Ī couple of high profile interviews to kick off the year, both well worth the read: The NESFA Press page has the full contents. This personal collection of prose and poetry is the next best thing to sitting in Stan’s kitchen, sharing a cup of coffee and conversation with the master.ĭust jacket illustration “Isosceles Peak from Dusy Basin” ©2012 by Tom KillionĪ nice collection of pieces that Stan has written for articles that have appeared in press or online, along with extracts from his novels and short stories! I see things from The Martians, The Years of Rice and Salt, Shaman, and more. You’ll read of some of his optimistic and naturalistic visions of our world in essays on predicting the future, on utopias and dystopias, on his Antarctic adventures, on hiking experiences in the wild, and on the fight to name a mountain. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, and Chip Delany that should make you want to run out to find and read more of their works. Stan has chosen examples of his entertaining fiction, including a band disaster, an exploration of the idea of whether Vinland existed or not, how a curveball might work on Mars, and his final Mars story.Īlso included are insightful and wide-ranging essays on Gene Wolfe, Cecelia Holland, Joanna Russ, Stanislaw Lem, George Orwell, Philip K. In this book, Stan offers you a rare treat, a selection of his favorite pieces of his own writing, which offers a unique view into important ideas within many of his areas of interest. The year 2020 will bring another Kim Stanley Robinson novel! The Ministry for the Future, a novel where we struggle and steer the anthropocene towards a good direction, is scheduled to be published in the fall by Orbit.īut before we reach that date, there's another KSR publication first! KSR is the Guest of Honor at this week's Boskone 57 convention, and he brings with him a book specially for the convention that he will present on Saturday, by the New England SF Association Press: Stan's Kitchen: A Robinson Reader:
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