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Post Tagged with:kim stanley robinson
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B&N Book Haul Picks: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Standalones and Series-Starters
There are plenty of great long-running series in the science fiction and fantasy section, but it can be tough to walk in on the middle of a story. With...
bang zoom
Kim Stanley Robinson’s
Red Moon
Has a Lot to Say About Life on Earth
It’s a science fiction tradition so reliable, you can all but set your watch by it: another year, another Kim Stanley Robinson novel that uses a...
it could happen
5 Plausible Science Fiction Novels in the Spirit of
First Man
It’s been nearly 50 years since Neil Armstrong took those famous first steps on the surface of the moon, and the journey that brought him there forms the...
grey skies ahead
Tales of Two Drowned Cities:
New York 2140
and
Blackfish City
In his science fantasy novel Blackfish City , Sam J. Miller posits that “all cities are science experiments.” As experiments go, the climate...
noms noms noms
Returning Favorites: The 2018 Hugo Award Nominees
The nominations for the 2018 Hugo Awards are in, and you’ll excuse us if we’re feeling a slight sense of déjà vu. It’s not only the...
number 5 is alive
5 Ways to Give an Artificial Intelligence Real Personality
Artificial intelligence (AI), by definition, is somehow made, rather than innate. But how do you make an intelligence? It is a billion, trillion dollar...
expert recommendations
Mind Meld: Our Best of 2017 Authors Tell You What Books They Can’t Wait to Read This Year
This month, Mind Meld takes a bit of a departure from the usual format to look ahead to the next year of new sci-fi and fantasy books. We asked the authors...
editors' picks
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2017 So Far
As six-month periods go, the first half of 2017 has certainly been, shall we say, interesting. But even as the real world works ever harder to convince us...
extrapolating
7 Sci-Fi Books That Place Big Bets on a Specific Year
Science fiction is all about speculation. Of course, plenty of sci-fi is set in the present-day or even the past, imagining things happening under the...
drowned world
New York 2140
Offers a Fascinating Tour of a Drowned Manhattan
In his 2015 novel Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson brackets events taking place largely on a generation ship with two long sequences on or in the water: a...
bookseller's picks
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of March 2017
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N...
mind meld
Mind Meld: Alternate Histories We Love
Alternate history can be a thrilling, but daunting, subgenre of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to dive into; there are seemingly endless possible...
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