Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised 'Mars' series.
The creative imagination of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus-winner Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt) is on display in this offbeat novel of scientific discovery. In 1609, a stranger tells Galileo Galilei about a recent Dutch device that magnifies distant objects. The Italian scientist develops his own version, and the success of his telescope brings him recognition and acclaim. Forty pages in, the book changes genres abruptly as the stranger brings Galileo to Europa, the second moon of Jupiter, in a far future where various factions quarrel over plans to colonize the distant sphere. During the course of several trips through time and space, Galileo becomes something of a pawn in the political conflicts while gaining treasured glimpses of the future of science. Readers will eagerly share Galileo's curiosity and astonishment at the wonders of both the past and the future. (Jan.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
`One of the finest working novelists in any genre'
GUARDIAN
'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard
for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley
Robinson'
NEW YORK TIMES
Praise for GALILEO'S DREAM:
`Thought-provoking and moving in equal measure. Robinson
captures the joy of scientific discovery better than anyone else
working today ... Elegant, charming, funny and profound'
GUARDIAN
'A brilliant work of imagination, drawing together the "two
cultures" in a harmonious marriage of science and art'
THE TIMES
`A triumph, with Robinson's gifts for characterisation and
world-building firmly to the fore. His Galileo is wonderful:
brilliant, irascible, sometimes hateful, and always fascinating.
The finale is both stirring and melancholic, and a fitting tribute
to science's most famous iconoclast'
NEW SCIENTIST
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