+Vote!
The Rik Files (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
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!
+Vote!
Virtual Economics (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
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...
+Vote!
in the open space: God & culture (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
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...
+Vote!
The Entropy Pump (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
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 [...]
+Vote!
Polocrunch: Vox queritor (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
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...
+Vote!
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
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...
+Vote!
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
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...
+Vote!
Rudy's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2007
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 [...]
+Vote!
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 28/04/2007
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
