Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
"2312 paints an absolutely credible and astonishingly beautiful
picture of the centuries to come, of the sort of schism and war,
the art and love, the industry and ethics that might emerge from
humanity going to space without conquering it and without solving
all its problems."
--Boing Boing
"2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar
system in ways no one has envisioned before. Whether comparing the
compositions of Beethoven to those of skylarks and warblers, or
describing a life-threatening sunrise on Mercury, Robinson fills
2312 with joy and exuberance, danger and fear, and the steadily
mounting suspense of a mystery that spans the planets. This is the
finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and
GALILEO'S DREAM. An amazing accomplishment."
--Robert Crais
"A brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize
planets, moons and asteroids, 2312 is also about the future of art
and family."
--NPR Books
"A magnificent achievement . . . hugely imaginative and beautifully
written."
--Booklist (starred review)
"An SF masterpiece."
--Library Journal
"Beautifully written and with strong mental imagery"
--SciFi Now
"In his vibrant, often moving new novel, 2312, Robinson's
extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love
story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, 2312 is a treasured
gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan
and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page."
--LA Times
"Inherently epic stuff . . . expect interplanetary strife,
conspiracies, more big ideas than most SF authors pack into a
trilogy . . . [yet] this is ultimately in so many respects a book
about Earth . . . a wise and wondrous novel"
--SFX
"Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is,
exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is
the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game."
--Iain M. Banks
"Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a
magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which
social and biological changes keep pace with technological
developments."
--Publishers Weekly
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