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Wot? No RBS Thingy to post today, Rik?

Well, after reading the Is Google Making Us Stupid? article over at Atlantic.com, I decided to settle down and do some serious, sustained book reading. Which has managed to get me through 200 pages of Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars . So no, no RBS Thingy today. Maybe tomorrow I'll post the next episode. Now go read something long and involved, both of you: it's good for your brains, innit!

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Iceland

Back from ten days driving around Iceland. Thoughts on Iceland (1) I recommend anyone who goes read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy first - much of the country's outlandish beauty comes from looking like the early stages of a terraforming...

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Forty Signs of Rain’

I hesitated blogging this novel—a near-future global disaster story focusing on global warming and set for the most part in the D.C. Metro area—as it’s the first in a trilogy and I’ve yet to get to the other two (the second is on its way to me in the mail as I type). But it was a fun read—and has some things worth bringing into open spaces.I must admit, I have varied feelings about work. I discovered...

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The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

by Kim Stanley Robinson This is certainly not a book you can read on an afternoon. TYoRaS is a complex and dense alternative/parallel world epic that poses the question: what would have followed if the black death had completely depopulated Europe. At times the complexity of the alternate history and the story threatens to overwhelm the [...]

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Booklist 2007

Good material for a nice short LJ post, this. Here are all the books I can remember reading for pleasure last year: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson The Road - Cormac McCarthy Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore Making Money - Terry Pratchett I'm certain...

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Where Would We Be Now on Climate If Carter Had Won?

Alex Steffen: So, ever since yesterday, with Regine's post referencing Carter's energy plans and the Kim Stanley Robinson quote about the eco-visions of the 1970s, I've had...

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The Collapse of Civilization: "It Wouldn't Be An Adventure"

Alex Steffen: Kim Stanley Robinson makes a point I made elsewhere, but much more clearly: "It's a failure of imagination to think that climate change is going...

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Flurb #4

Flurb #4 is live at www.flurb.net! It's another fat and juicy issue, including stories and essays by: Charlie Anders, Kathleen Ann Goonan, John Kessel, Marc Laidlaw, Kim Stanley Robinson; also my meeting with Hieronymus Bosch; also pieces by three newer writers: David Agranoff, Gord Sellar, and Penlope Thomas; also a group-written jam by “Gustav Flurbert”! We’re [...]

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Future Sports

Enter a world of weird sportsmanship in this unique sci-fi anthology of stories by such great visionaries as: Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed