Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable
Critical Essays
Edited by
William J.
Burling
Series Editors Donald E. Palumbo and C.W. Sullivan III
ISBN
978-0-7864-3369-8
notes, bibliographies, index
312pp.
softcover
(7 x 10)
2009
Available for immediate shipment
Description
While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for his hard science fiction works Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, the epic trilogy exploring ecological and sociological themes involved in human settlement of the Red Planet, his contributions to utopian science fiction are diverse and numerous. Along with aspects of sociology and ecology in the Mars trilogy and other topics, these essays examine Robinson’s use of alternate history and politics, both in his many novels and in his short stories. While Robinson has long been a subject of literary criticism, this collection, which includes five new essays and is drawn from writers on four continents, broadens the interpretive debate surrounding Robinson’s science fiction and argues for consideration of the author as an intellectual figure of the first rank.
About the Author
The late William J. Burling (1949–2009) was an English professor at Missouri State University. He put in twenty years of 17th and 18th century studies, publishing four books and more than 50 articles. Recent essays have appeared in Utopian Studies and Kronoscope.
Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville.
C.W. Sullivan III is in the English department at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
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