See and hear author interviews, book reviews, and other news on Kim Stanley Robinson's page HEREĬlick here for a one page product sheet on this product. I was in sales but their bonus structure had fluctuated so much over the years, it was a capped bonus. When I worked for them they started me at a decent annual salary and in the years I was with them I had raises equally over 10,000. Not surprisingly, he’s a good friend of Gary Snyder. Event Sales Manager (Former Employee) - New York, NY - July 13, 2015. He spends several weeks a year above 11,500 feet in the high Sierras. We’ll cherish all the great memories and look forward to seeing you again at Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern and Morandi. We wish to extend a heartfelt thanks to all our loyal patrons and wonderful staff. Dick), and now lives in Davis with two kids and a beautiful scientist wife. Despite our desire to continue to serve our community, Lucky Strike has closed permanently due to the impact of Covid-19. “If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson.” - The New York Timesīorn in 1952, a Californian through and through, Kim Stanley Robinson grew up in Orange County, surfed his way through UC San Diego (writing his doctoral thesis on Philip K. “It’s no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer.” today also happens to write science fiction.” "The foremost writer of literary utopias." As with all Outspoken Author books, there is a deep interview and autobiography: at length, in-depth, no-holds-barred, and all-bets-off: an extended tour though the mind and work, the history and politics of our Outspoken Author. Plus: “A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions,” in which Robinson dramatically deconstructs “alternate history” to explore what might have been if things had gone differently over Hiroshima that day. “The Lucky Strike,” the classic and controversial story Robinson has chosen for PM’s Outspoken Authors series, begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in an untried aircraft with a deadly payload that will change our world forever. The Years of Rice and Salt is based on a devastatingly simple idea: If the medieval plague had wiped out all of Europe, what would our world look like today? His novel Galileo’s Dream is a stunning combination of historical drama and far-flung space opera, in which the ten dimensions of the universe itself are rewoven to ensnare history’s most notorious torturers. His bestselling Mars Trilogy tells the epic story of the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive (read “radical”) of today’s top rank SF authors.
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