#KimStanleyRobinson describes the work of the National Science Foundation (#NSF) in combating #ClimateChange in his fictional trilogy Science In The Capital. Only, he chose a universe where Americans elected an environmentalist president, and (almost) everyone works to save the planet from climate disaster. Starting new wars for oil and supporting genocide wasn't even imagined as a possibility in that universe.
In this universe though, environmental activist Al Gore was
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Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Kim Stanley Robinson interviewing former President of Ireland Mary Robinson this Sunday in San Francisco!
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Born this day: 03/23/1952
Kim Stanley Robinson is best known for the Mars trilogy — Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars — a landmark depiction of the colonization and terraforming of Mars. A multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, BSFA, and Campbell Memorial award winner, his work centers on ecology, economics, and humanity's future.
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Very lazily working my way through Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars at Daughters. It's a beautiful day.
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