Imagining Abrupt Climate Change: Terraforming Earth

Amazon.com, 2005, Digital

Product Description

This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of utopian novels I am writing.

Product Details

Title: Imagining Abrupt Climate Change: Terraforming Earth
Sales Rank: 161454 in Books
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Amazon.com, 2005-08-01, Digital, 20 pages

Customer Reviews

Writing Beyond Genre: Most of what Kim Stanley `Stan' Robinson writes is classified as science fiction. His works also often wear the label `literary,' but I read a little bit of everything, including unliterary science fiction, so I think dispensing with labels would be appropriate at this point. Stan's novels are the works of a writer with broad interests and a penchant for accuracy, so getting into… More reviews

Nobody makes 'boring science' as interesting as KSR does: I'm of the belief one should never pass up the chance to read anything Mr. Robinson publishes. His prose is like the crispest poetry, but without poetry's pretentiousness. This essay, like his fiction, presents theories without shying away from the difficult task of giving the reasons why they're worth considering -- even when it means explaining concepts… More reviews