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Subject: [alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 37 (last modified 2003-06-15).
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[alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 37 (last modified 2003-06-15).

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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"

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?
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: N jbeyq jvgubhg
Rhebcr and Road from Samakand)
    * 2003 Consulting on the SCI FI channel's Kim Stanley Robinson's
Red Mars mini series.
    * 2004-01-05 The capital code: book one (book 1 of the science
business trilogy) (working title: Science in the capital)

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 (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

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
<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>
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.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intksr.htm>
<http://www.zone-sf.com/ksrobinson.html>
KSR
<http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.net/>
Mt information
<http://deltos.com/reference/mars/>
<http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/marsindx.html>
<http://jack.p5.org.uk/ksr/mars-timeline.html>
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwb/rgbmars.html>
Stories online
"A history of the twentieth century, with illustrations" (revised?)
<http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/history.htm>
Places to buy books online
<http://www.noamazon.com/>
sf info
<http://www.sff.net/>
Tyoras excerpt
<http://shorterlink.com/?b43v1l>
-- 
Jeandré 
<mars@jack.p5.org.uk> 
<http://jack.p5.org.uk/ksr/faq.html> 
“Grief seeps in us / Like a blotter takes ink” - Kim Stanley Robinson

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