Top 3 Kim Stanley Robinson Books

Science Fiction (yes, with capital letters) is a genre associated by laymen with a kind of fanciful subgenre with no more value than mere entertainment. With the only example of the author that I bring here today, Kim stanley robinson, would be enough to destroy all those vague impressions about this type of literature as a kind of fanzine for outdated intellectuals or kids as imaginative as they are extravagant.

Because Mr. Stanley is a complete doctorate in literature, from various American universities, who finally opted to write CiFi to have an ideal scenario in which to dump a multitude of world-class concerns such as ecology derived from politics and darkness of economic liberalism as the perfect epitome of the worst dystopia anticipated by other CiFi greats who preceded it as HG Wells, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick , Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury and many others whose predictions appear from time to time with the macabre weight of certainty ...

Stanley Robinson cultivated above all a hard genre, the one that moves away from our world (or at least from our time), to try to find solutions, although at the moment they only look to the fruitful imagination, to a pressing limitation of resources or to raise awareness of at least that end more or less close to the unstable equilibrium of our world.

Welcome to the last great bastion of hard science fiction, fasten your seat belts and get ready for take off.

Top 3 Recommended Books by Kim Stanley Robinson

2312

The future, that mirror that begins to reflect the disaster, the apocalypse or the end, whatever we want to call it. Stanley Robinson travels to the future and takes pleasure in it, bringing as hope what science can discover.

The Earth is what remains of what we were, it does not give more of itself. And although our species may not deserve any paradise offered by God, the survival instinct and the perseverance of blind faith give scientists the strength to search for new places beyond our sun.

We are in the XXIV century. Science and technology share the merit of our possible projection to new places where we exist. But in the year anticipated in the title, in the fateful 2312 it seems that human pride peeks out at the fateful moment when the cosmos conspires against our interstellar advance.

Robinson's 2312

New York, 2140

A few centuries before the previous novel, although completely independent of this one ... According to scientific studies that, based on climate change, predict an exponential rise in sea level, the location of New York and especially its island of Manhattan, they become a risk zone for not so many years to come.

In this book, the consequences of current studies transform New York into a Venice exposed to the rigors of the ocean that only engineering and pride strive to maintain as a great habitable city.

Faced with this proposal, the protagonism of the narrative proposal acquires a special consideration. Is it about offering us a novel or exposing what is coming our way through a place as emblematic to the West as New York?

The New York lifestyle is characterized by its dynamism, its ability to set trends in the rest of the world and its cosmopolitan nature par excellence. The city of the American dream and global business. The emblem of man's ability to colonize the world.

Only ..., nature forced into a future marked by our intervention will have a lot to say in our intention to overcome our own transforming capacity. Did you know that if we compare the history of planet Earth with a calendar year, the passage of our civilization only takes a few minutes of the last day? We can think that the planet is our world, that everything is for our service.

But the reality is that we are only a kind of step. And that we ourselves may be causing our anticipated extinction. Different characters present their daily lives to us from what were once the most emblematic buildings of New York.

A mosaic from that year 2140 where we can see the human being accustomed to catastrophe, evoking ancestral memories of a city where rivers and land were perfectly differentiated, not like in that future in which everything is water, conquering the new tides of our boundless ambition and our zero perspective on that future.

New York, 2140

Rice and salt times

Rice and salt, foodstuffs of the first order and basic elements for the historical development of our civilization before the voracious consumerism and globalization.

For once, the author goes back to the past, to those days when man still inhabited a place that was not completely mapped, with his myths and beliefs ... The bubonic plague is already a momentous event in Europe in 1349.

The population succumbs by the millions, until half the souls of the entire continent are decimated. It is then that the author proposes a uchrony to break the dominance of the Western and hand over the world to a new party of power between Muslims and Chinese.

Earth changes forever, social and political evolution takes a fascinating new path that the author describes with the passion and charm of the discoverer of a new world.

Rice and salt times
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4 comments on "The 3 best books by Kim Stanley Robinson"

  1. Red Mars is better than 2312, and green Mars as well.
    2312 is a parallel adaptation of the Martian saga updating it and focusing it on the inner planets of the solar system.
    Times of Rice and Salt I want to read it, it has a very good reputation.
    2140 did not finish hooking me although it is more realistic than Aurora traveling that far.
    Red Moon is one more step forward in its complex vision of the world, it has returned to its origins and has given a more commercial focus as in Red Mars or 2312 to the main plot (which is always secondary to explain what really interests in its novels), to find more linear readers.
    Luna Roja also does not pass any filter so that we can see some of his super works on television.
    A great multi-faceted and committed writer that we have the luxury of enjoying, who will continue to write for a long time.

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    • Perfect analysis.
      In the variety of tastes is grace.
      Be that as it may, that inherent aspect of literary engagement and more from CiFi is always appreciated.

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