Sunday, August 18, 2013

Kim Stanley Robinson and the networked frontier

This piece of mine came out in a collection of essays on California science fiction:

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-networked-frontier/

I've always found him good to think with--his recent stuff, especially, which has this thoughtful open-endedness that I find particularly inviting.  An odd parallel: Le Guin's work is similarly trending towards ambiguity. 

1 comment:

DANIELBLOOM said...

I ask Stan about cli fi and whether it is a subgenre of sci fi or a genre of its own, want to know what he told me last month?

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