Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!ctb-nntp1.saix.net!not-for-mail From: Jeandré Newsgroups: alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson Subject: [alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 36 (last modified 2003-02-16) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:22:07 +0200 Organization: Anarchism Lines: 193 Message-ID: References: <3rj26v8iqh6clgi6jokvm4gv68e9lhpank@4ax.com> <6nltbv82rk61qbhkgtcvm47i68ebbe0ks5@4ax.com> <5qtfcvsmsr9hjstr09t7dr7gnqtlug4bf1@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ctb53-02-p30.wc.saix.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ctb-nnrp2.saix.net 1055110633 15029 155.239.150.30 (8 Jun 2003 22:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@saix.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jun 2003 22:17:13 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson:566 X-no-archive: yes [alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson] FAQ 36 (last modified 2003-02-16) Posted weekly, and available at . Post suggestions on alt.fan.kim-stanley-robinson or email them to . 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) * 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 Archive of afksr on Google Bibliographies Eco-fiction Fora Interviews KSR Mt information RM Stories online "A history of the twentieth century, with illustrations" (revised?) Places to buy books online sf info Tyoras excerpt -- Jeandré “Grief seeps in us / Like a blotter takes ink” - Kim Stanley Robinson