New Releases by Kim Stanley Robinson

Lauréat du Grand Prix de l''Imaginaire, catégorie "Roman étranger" ! L''auteur de science-fiction légendaire Kim Stanley Robinson nous propose une vision du changement climatique pareille à nulle autre. Établi en 2025, l''objectif de la nouvelle organisation était simple : plaider pour les générations à venir du monde et protéger toutes les créatures vivantes, présentes et futures. Il fut vite surnommé « le Ministère du Futur ». Raconté entièrement sous forme des témoignages directs de ses personnages, Le Ministère du Futur est un chef-d''oeuvre de l''imaginaire, l''histoire de la façon dont le changement climatique nous affectera tous dans les décennies à venir. Le décor n''est pas un monde postapocalyptique et désolé, mais un avenir qui nous fonce dessus... et où il nous reste une petite chance de surmonter les défis extraordinaires auxquels nous devons faire face. « Robinson est l''un de nos meilleurs raconteurs d''histoires, l''un des plus courageux, nobles et optimistes. » New Yorker « L''un des meilleurs écrivains du monde en activité, tous genres confondus. » Guardian « Un portrait ambitieux et optimiste d''une humanité prête à coopérer pour éviter le désastre. La lecture de cet ouvrage vibrant, gorgé de science, est une lecture indispensable pour qui s''inquiète du futur de notre planète. » Publishers Weekly « Si je devais désigner un écrivain dont le travail serait l''étalon de la science-fiction à venir, mon choix se porterait sur Kim Stanley Robinson. » New York Times « Kim Stanley Robinson est l''un des maîtres de la science-fiction. » Sunday Times « Le meilleur écrivain écologiste de notre époque. » Locus « Kim Stanley Robinson est communément reconnu comme l''un des plus grands écrivains de science-fiction actuels... Mon porte-monnaie le considère aussi comme l''un des plus importants écrivains politiques en activité aux États-Unis. » New Yorker « L''oeuvre de Robinson est intelligente et dotée d''une forte conscience sociale. » GQ « Brillant, érudit, visionnaire. » Financial Times « Chaque nouveau roman du grand Kim Stanley Robinson est par définition un événement. » Independent « Le roman de SF le plus important de l''année. » Usbek et Rica « Un texte aussi stimulant intellectuellement que bouleversant. Une oeuvre magistrale. » Mediapart

Découvrez les Intégrales Bragelonne ! Des séries complètes en numérique pour une durée limitée et à prix canon ! Cette édition exclusive numérique contient les ouvrages suivants : Aurora (2019) New York 2140 (2020) Lune rouge (2022) Chaman (2022) Le Ministère du futur (2023, Grand Prix de l''Imaginaire) Kim Stanley Robinson est un best-seller international, lauréat des prestigieux prix Hugo, Nebula et Locus. Désigné par la critique et ses pairs comme l''un des auteurs les plus visionnaires de son temps, il est aussi reconnu pour son engagement pour la sauvegarde de notre planète. Il a été nommé Héros de l''environnement par le magazine américain Time. Au programme de cette intégrale Bragelonne : De l''exploration spatiale ; la quête d''un nouveau foyer pour l''humanité au-delà du système solaire ; une vision audacieuse et brillante de la ville de New York au siècle prochain ; le récit puissant, exaltant et émouvant du voyage initiatique d''un jeune homme il y a trente-cinq mille ans ; une vision du changement climatique pareille à nulle autre... « Robinson est l''un de nos meilleurs raconteurs d''histoires, l''un des plus courageux, nobles et optimistes. » New Yorker « L''un des meilleurs écrivains du monde en activité, tous genres confondus. » Guardian « Si je devais désigner un écrivain dont le travail serait l''étalon de la science-fiction à venir, mon choix se porterait sur Kim Stanley Robinson. » New York Times « Kim Stanley Robinson est l''un des maîtres de la science-fiction. » Sunday Times « Chaque nouveau roman du grand Kim Stanley Robinson est par définition un événement. » Independent

Un passionnant roman d''exploration spatiale et de révolution politique, par l''un des grands maîtres américains de la science-fiction moderne. 2047 : l''homme a colonisé la Lune, territoire divisé par les grandes nations. L''Américain Fred Fredericks fait son premier voyage là-haut, afin de livrer un appareil de communication ultrasécurisé à un haut fonctionnaire de l''Autorité lunaire chinoise. Mais quelques heures seulement après son arrivée, il se voit impliqué malgré lui dans un assassinat et mis au secret par des agents mystérieux. Ta Shu, célèbre vlogueur, visite également le satellite pour la première fois. Malgré ses contacts et son influence au coeur du pouvoir en Chine, lui aussi découvrira que la Lune est un endroit dangereux pour tout voyageur. Et enfin, il y a Chan Qi. Fille du ministre des Finances chinois, elle est sans aucun doute une « personne d''intérêt » pour les autorités de son pays. Renvoyée clandestinement en Chine à cause de ses agissements, elle va tout faire changer... sur la Terre comme sur la Lune. « Un des meilleurs romanciers de notre temps, tous genres confondus. » The Guardian « Un chef-d''oeuvre. » The Times « Tout nouveau roman de la part du grand Kim Stanley Robinson constitue un événement et celui-ci ne déçoit pas. » The Independant

This is a collection of inspiring, funny, dark, mysterious, tragic, romantic, dramatic, upbeat and fantastical short stories. These 24 stories are written by a variety of authors with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there. The stories are diverse in style, ranging from whodunnits to sci-fi, romance to family drama, comedy to tragedy, and cover a range of solution types from high-tech to nature-based solutions, to more systemic aspects relating to our culture and political economy.

Le récit puissant, exaltant et émouvant du voyage initiatique d''un jeune homme à l''âge adulte... il y a trente mille ans. Ère glaciaire, à une époque charnière du développement de la race humaine. Il y a Piquant, le chaman. Il se consacre à la transmission de sa sagesse et de ses histoires... pour former ceux qui marcheront dans ses pas. Et Bruyère, la guérisseuse, qui de multiples façons est celle qui maintient la cohésion du clan. Un clan perturbé par l''arrivée d''une étrangère porteuse de changement. Et il y a le futur chaman, déterminé à découvrir sa propre voie. Mais, dans un univers si hostile, ce genre de voyage n''est jamais simple. Et sa destination est hasardeuse... « La façon experte de Robinson de concevoir son univers et sa prose lyrique quand il dépeint les beautés saisissantes des paysages glacés, leurs dangers et les choix désespérés qu''ils imposent aux personnages, poussés dans leurs derniers retranchements... tout cela nous fait penser au plaisir de lire Jack London. » Kirkus Reviews « Un roman documenté et captivant sur la vie durant la préhistoire. Un divertissement des plus intelligents. » NPR Books « Ce livre prouve une fois encore que la fascination de Robinson pour la condition humaine et l''histoire de l''humanité transcende facilement les genres... Robinson propose sans doute ici sa meilleure oeuvre à ce jour, focalisée sur la façon la plus simple d''être humain. » Library Journal « Cet ouvrage propose un étonnant travail de reconstitution qui évoque de façon saisissante les privations, les croyances animalistes et les luttes quotidiennes d''une tribu primitive. » Financial Times

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his life—more than a hundred trips—and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth. Over the course of a vivid and dramatic narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the Sierras and the history of its exploration, going back to the indigenous peoples who made it home and whose traces can still be found today. He celebrates the people whose ideas and actions protected the High Sierra for future generations. He describes uniquely beautiful hikes and the trails to be avoided. Robinson’s own life-altering events, defining relationships, and unforgettable adventures form the narrative’s spine. And he illuminates the human communion with the wild and with the sublime, including the personal growth that only seems to come from time spent outdoors. The High Sierra is a gorgeous, absorbing immersion in a place, born out of a desire to understand and share one of the greatest rapture-inducing experiences our planet offers. Packed with maps, gear advice, more than 100 breathtaking photos, and much more, it will inspire veteran hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers to prepare for a magnificent adventure.

Von Barack Obama auf Twitter empfohlen! Indien, 2025. Das Land wird von einer gnadenlosen Hitzewelle heimgesucht, die Temperaturen erreichen mancherorts über 50 Grad. Hunderttausende Menschen sterben, manchmal werden ganze Stadtviertel ausgelöscht. Zu den Überlebenden gehört der Entwicklungshelfer Frank May. Schwer traumatisiert zieht er in die Schweiz, um mit denen abzurechnen, die seiner Meinung nach mitverantwortlich sind: dem Ministerium für die Zukunft, dessen Aufgabe es eigentlich ist, solche Katastrophen zu verhindern. In Mary Murphy, der Vorsitzenden des Ministeriums, findet Frank unerwartet eine Verbündete, die wie er gegen den Klimawandel kämpft - wenn auch mit anderen Mitteln ...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green

From the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures—one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopia—form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias. What if... there was a limited nuclear war that left the United States blockaded, fragmented, the few survivors living in the ruins of a once-great nation? What if... this goes on, and technology continues to accelerate, and power continues to be consolidated into corporate culture, a developer’s dream world gone mad: an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls, and designer drugs? What if... a revolution happens, and the US addresses climate change in a responsible way. Is a future green Utopia all that great when you’re young and in love? This Tor Essentials edition of Three Californias includes an introduction by Francis Spufford, bestselling author of Golden Hill and Red Plenty. “[Robinson] invites us to share his characters’ intensely personal, intensely local attachment to what they have. The result may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future.” —The New York Times on Pacific Edge At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Kim Stanley Robinson vuelve a sus orígenes con una novela del estilo de Marte Rojo, su best seller que le valió los premios Hugo y Nébula. ESTAMOS EN UN FUTURO DEL QUE NOS SEPARAN TREINTA AÑOS, Y HEMOS COLONIZADO LA LUNA. El estadounidense Fred Fredericks se embarca en su primer viaje con el objetivo de instalar un sistema de comunicaciones para la Fundación de Ciencia Lunar de China. Pero unas pocas horas después de su llegada es testigo de un asesinato y se ve obligado a esconderse. También es su primera visita para el famoso periodista de viajes Ta Shu. Es una persona con contactos e influencia, pero descubrirá que la luna puede ser un lugar peligroso para cualquier visitante. En último lugar tenemos a Chan Qi. Es hija del ministro de Finanzas y, sin duda, está en el punto de mira de personas poderosas. Se encuentra en la luna por motivos personales, pero cuando intenta regresar a China, los acontecimientos que se producirán lo cambiarán todo... en la luna y en la Tierra. Luna roja es una magnífica novela sobre exploración espacial y revoluciones políticas de mano de un autor habitual en las listas de los libros más vendidos del New York Times.

Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson. It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China''s Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler. Finally, there is Chan Qi. She is the daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything -- on the moon, and on Earth.

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human communities? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private--narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the New Space era. Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities provides fresh insights into human activity in Low Earth Orbit, journeys to Mars, capturing and mining asteroids, and exploring strange and uncharted exoplanets. Its stories and essays imagine human expansion into space as a kind of domestication--not in the sense of taming nature but in the sense of creating a space for dwelling, a venue for human life and curiosity to unfurl in all their weirdness and complexity.

Mari e fiumi si sono formati sulla superficie di Marte e il pianeta rosso è ormai solo un retaggio del passato, nulla di più lontano dalla landa desolata e inospitale degli albori dell’espansione interplanetaria. Eppure c’è chi, come i Rossi, rimpiange il tempo in cui erano le aride sabbie a ricoprire la superficie marziana. Per loro, la ribellione a chi ha fatto di Marte una sorta di nuova Terra è l’unica via contro l’oblio che ha cominciato a inghiottirne la storia, soprattutto ora che un nuovo pericolo minaccia di cancellare per sempre qualsiasi retaggio del passato. Sulla Terra, una catastrofe di dimensioni apocalittiche ha messo in ginocchio la popolazione già stremata da inquinamento e sovraffollamento. Marte sta per essere investito da una massiccia ondata migratoria, un’emergenza che rischia di compromettere il delicato equilibrio tra le fazioni in campo e scatenare una guerra interplanetaria cruenta e definitiva. Il capitolo conclusivo di un’avventura appassionante e visionaria, una pietra miliare della narrativa SciFi.

Ein Stonehenge aus Eis Fünfhundert Jahre in der Zukunft sind die inneren Planeten unseres Sonnensystems besiedelt. Männer und Frauen leben Jahrhunderte lang, können sich aber nur an die jüngste Vergangenheit erinnern. Die äußeren Planeten und ihre Monde werden erforscht, und so dringt die erste Expedition bis zum fernen Pluto vor. Am Pol des kleinen Planeten erwartet sie ein gigantisches Monument: ein Ring monolithischer Eisblöcke, die im Licht der fernen Sonne funkeln. Dieses „Icehenge“ stellt die gesamte Menschheitsgeschichte infrage, denn schnell steht zweifelsfrei fest, dass es einst von Menschenhand errichtet worden ist ...

We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden; stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live. Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.

FEATURING Paolo Bacigalupi • Elizabeth Bear • Greg Bear • Jeffrey Ford • Neil Gaiman • Nalo Hopkinson • Nisi Shawl • Simon Ings • Gwyneth Jones • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Anne Leckie • Kelly Link • Usman T. Malik • Ian McDonald • Vonda McIntrye • Sam J. Miller • Tamsyn Muir • Robert Reed • Alastair Reynolds • Kim Stanley Robinson • Kelly Robson • Geoff Ryman • Nike Sulway • Catherynne Valente • Genevieve Valentine • Kai Ashante Wilson • Alyssa Wong Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 10th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy from 2015. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.

The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change—updated and abridged into a single novel More than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson began a groundbreaking series of near-future eco-thrillers—Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting—that grew increasingly urgent and vital as global warming continued unchecked. Now, condensed into one volume and updated with the latest research, this sweeping trilogy gains new life as Green Earth, a chillingly realistic novel that plunges readers into great floods, a modern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives. The Arctic ice pack averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter when it was first measured in the 1950s. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as they fight to align the extraordinary march of modern technology with the awesome forces of nature, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will pit science against politics in the heart of the coming storm. Praise for the Science in the Capital trilogy “Perhaps it’s no coincidence that one of our most visionary hard sci-fi writers is also a profoundly good nature writer—all the better to tell us what it is we have to lose.”—Los Angeles Times “An unforgettable demonstration of what can go wrong when an ecological balance is upset.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing and convincing.”—Nature

All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.

A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty–a mysterious watery world encircled by a thin spine of land. Aided by strange tribesmen, he journeys to the cove of the spine kings, a brutal race that has enslaved the woman and several of the tribesmen. That is only the beginning of his quest, as he struggles to find her identity in this wondrous and cruel land–and seeks out the woman whose hold on his imagination is both unfathomable and unshakable. Haunting and lyrical, filled with uncommon beauty and terrible peril, A Short, Sharp Shock is an ambitious and enthralling story by one of science fiction''s most respected talents. "A fabulation of life, love and beauty transplanted into the alien; a dreamy picaresque…A strange and hallucinatory short fantasy with occasional sharp insights into human natures and loves… A story that will haunt you, long after you finish reading." - Infinity Plus "Mysterious and poetic, with vivid descriptions of the lands through which they walk...compelling." - SFF Chronicle "Robinson shows off his vivid imagination and descriptive skills." - Science Fiction Times

SF titan Kim Stanley Robinson’s breakout novel, now in a Tor Essentials edition with a new introduction by Henry Farrell Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Decades before his massively successful The Ministry for the Future (2020), Kim Stanley Robinson wrote one of SF’s greatest meditations on extended human lifespan, the limitations of human memory, and the haunted confabulations that go with forgetting. On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth’s Stonehenge—but ten times the size, standing alone at the edge of the Solar System. What is it? Who could have built it? The secret lies in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries. This new Tor Essentials edition of Icehenge includes a new introduction by Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An idealistic young builder fights for love and nature in a utopian society in this conclusion to the Three Californias Trilogy. 2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this “green” world, now finds himself caught up in the struggle to preserve his community’s idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and exploitation. Praise for Pacific Edge “An outstanding achievement. . . . Robinson’s writing ranks in the highest levels of the genre. The book generates a soaring optimism.” —Publishers Weekly “Through a blend of dirt-under-fingernails naturalism and lyrical magical realism, Robinson invites us to share his characters’ intensely personal, intensely loyal attachment to what they have. The result is a bittersweet utopia that may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Pacific Edge is] the outstanding utopia of the last ten years and more.” —Foundation

“Bold, manic, wonderful,” this dystopian sci-fi thriller imagines ecological collapse in an alternative future California (Los Angeles Times). 2027: Southern California is a developer’s dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals. “Owes more to 1984 and A Clockwork Orange than to the usual SF scenario. . . . Robinson offers a stark cautionary tale with a glimmer of hope at the end.” —Publishers Weekly “A rich, brave book . . . It celebrates, with an earned and elated refusal of despair, the persistent, joyful survival of human persons in the interstices of the American juggernaut.” —Washington Post

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps. There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together. There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change. And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain. Shaman is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man''s journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.

"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity''s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them"--

At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it. From Galileo’s heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future—in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.

Kim Stanley Robinson has been an ongoing force in the Science Fiction genre for over twenty years, with his novels (Year’s of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain) crossing over to the mainstream, and routinely appearing on the New York Times best sellers list. During the 80s and early nineties, his short fiction continued to push the boundaries of science fiction, defining the science-focused side of the science fiction genre. Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan worked with Kim Stanley Robinson to select the stories that make up this landmark volume. In addition to these reprints, The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson features a brand-new short story, "The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942."

This stimulating little chapbook would work very well as a basis for classroom debate on speculative fiction, history, or the notion of free will. - Publishers Weekly The foremost writer of literary utopias.'' - Time magazine Its no coincidence that one of our most visionary science fiction writers is also a profoundly good nature writer.'' ...

The Enola Gay crashes on a test run before it is to drop the first atomic bomb, setting in motion events that stray significantly from the historical mid-twentieth century, in a volume that also includes a related essay and interview.

Siglo XXI. Durante eones, las tormentas de arena han barrido el estéril y desolado paisaje del planeta rojo. Ahora, en el año 2026, cien colonos, cincuenta mujeres y cincuenta hombres, viajan a Marte para dominar ese clima hostil. Tienen como misión la terraformación de Marte, y como lema «si el hombre no se puede adaptar a Marte, hay que adaptar Marte al hombre». Espejos en órbita reflejarán la luz sobre la superficie del planeta, en las capas polares se esparcirá un polvo negro que fundirá el hielo y grandes túneles, de kilómetros de profundidad, atravesarán el manto marciano para dar salida a gases calientes. En este escenario épico, habrá amistades y rivalidades, pues algunos lucharán hasta la muerte para evitar que el planeta rojo cambie.