Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of nineteen previous books, including the bestselling Mars Trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica--for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. In 2008 he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation's Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis, California.
The award-winning author, best known for his "Mars Trilogy" (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars) has been a force in the sf community for the past three decades. Each of his Mars books won either a Hugo or Nebula award. Collected here are 22 short stories that may have been missed by even his avid readers. It includes the acclaimed "The Blind Geometer" (Nebula for Best Novella, 1986) and "Black Air" (World Fantasy Award, 1983). One of the most compelling stories is "Lucky Strike," an alternative history of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Verdict Robinson's many fans will enjoy the gems in this thought-provoking and entertaining anthology.-William Baer, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib., Atlanta (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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