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.
`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
`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
In the far future, colonists of Jupiter's moons make a startling discovery that divides them into warring factions and sends one side into the past to consult Galileo Galilei. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robinson ("Mars Trilogy"; The Years of Rice and Salt) blends epic sf with alternate history as he uses the life of Galileo as a mirror for human scientific endeavors amid powerful opposition. A master storyteller with a highly attuned sense of dramatic narrative, Robinson creates a masterwork with this robust portrayal of a man whose discoveries echo through the ages. VERDICT Expanding the potential of the genre to reach out to a broad audience, Robinson's latest is highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/09.] Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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