[alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 30 (last modified 2002-05-26)
From: jeandre@techie.com (Jeandré) Newsgroups: alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson Subject: [alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 30 (last modified 2002-05-26) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 21:45:23 GMT Message-ID: <3cf156b8.3488209@news.worldonline.co.za> [alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ version 30 CE 2002-05-26 21:45 GMT Posted weekly, and available at http://go.to/ksr/ Post suggestions on alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson or email them to ksr@go.to 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 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 alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson&hl=en">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/ Mt information http://deltos.com/reference/mars/ sf info http://www.sff.net/ Tyoras excerpt http://shorterlink.com/?b43v1l -- Jeandré http://go.to/ksr/ "Grief seeps in us / Like a blotter takes ink" - Kim Stanley Robinson
[ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ]
Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer:
jeandre@techie.com (Jeandré)
Last Update October 23 2009 @ 08:25 AM