Tomasz Rola wrote on 6/21/20 9:13 AM June 21, 2020:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:37:56PM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
Tomasz Rola wrote on 6/14/20 10:33 AM June 14, 2020:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:28:38AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Kim Stanley Robinson's work has been discussed on silk multiple times
before. This piece is an interesting one, approaching the UBI issue from an
unusual angle.
Thoughts?
I like the man's brain, and enjoy spending time inside it. I read
even his bad books because I like to hang out with him.
Which of his books are in your opinion the most worth reading?
RGB Mars (_Red Mars_, _Green Mars_, _Blue Mars_) are excellent. Lots of
amazing geography as well as solid information on what it would take to
get to, and settle, Mars. He wrote quite a few other books that loosely
inhabit the same future of humanity spreading across the Solar System.
Each book in this series is 500+ pages, so maybe start with the climate
change series if you're not up for a long read.
His climate change series (starts with _Forty Days of Rain_) is well
worth reading.
I liked _Antarctica_ as well.
_Aurora_ is sweet and interesting, and also where he grapples with the
near-impossibility of interstellar travel.
_New York 2140_ takes place in a Manhattan that has sunk, Venice-like,
into the sea, and yet stubborn humans pit themselves and their
technology against the odds. Stunning book.
_Shaman_ goes back to the past, and is an excellent read.
The three California series is really, really old, and he'd not yet
grown into his craft.
--hmm
