So there’s that. I know she’s been worried about some system problems, but she didn’t give me any details.” He gestured at the lab. There are routes established. But if they have never run into people before, they’ll just think of you as a kind of chimp. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. “Exergasia is one of the weakest of the rhetorical devices,” Pauline opined. “What’s this?” she demanded. There were a lot of visitors in town as well; a conference had been about to begin, one that had been convened by Alex. He went forward to the observation bubble when Wegener passed the famous asteroid Programming Error. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. At the edge of town he came to a line of trees and a fence. Wounded and weaponless, he has stumbled upon a group of survivors who may be his last hope. There was a bottle of wine and she poured a glass. This process will redirect your water into new hydrologies, and this is the best time to introduce new species, also to export species you no longer want, giving them to newer terraria that might need them. She looked in the box. Gender and sexuality within this world is fluid and expansive, with the principal categories of gender and sexuality listed to include feminine, masculine, androgynous, ambisexual, bisexual, neuter, eunuch, nonsexual, undifferentiated, gay, lesbian, queer, invert, homosexual, polymorphous, poly, labile, berdache, hijra, and two-spirit. What would change to change it? All of it is in Robinson's eloquent, enthusiastic and inimitable prose"—Morning Star (UK)"In his vibrant, often moving new novel, "2312," Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. Es uno de los más prolíficos y celebrados autores de ciencia ficción norteamericanos. There was a knock at the lab’s outer door. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. She explained what had happened. I didn’t know you liked this kind of thing.”, “Mercury isn’t really where you would find out.”, She gestured at the cats. The inner curve of the chamber was a single recessed window wall, giving them an excellent view of the crater’s interior. A surge of defiance in the music rumbled up out of the basses. A young Earth boy who saves Swan from some trouble in his slum-like home town. A small, clever novel obscured rather than enlightened by philosophy, synthesis, analysis and travelogue. [...] 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. Don’t poison yourself when you do this! For them you will have to apply the appropriate inoculant, usually a muck or goo made of a few tons of the bacterial suite that you want. Inspector Genette eventually discovers how the artificial meteorite that destroyed Terminator was created: someone launched a large number of smaller objects on trajectories that would eventually cause them to coalesce above Mercury, but low enough that the planet's defense system could not destroy the now large object in time. At Rilke she had erected a circle of Göbekli T-stones, which looked very contemporary even though they were based on something over ten thousand years old. Meeting some of Alex's scientific friends reveals to Swan that mysterious projects were in the works and that she must uncover her grandmother's secrets before they destroy not only Mercury but the entire solar system. “Did Alex ever mention anything to you concerning enemies, threats—danger of any kind?” the small asked Swan. We didn’t talk about our work all that much.”, “But—” Swan started, and didn’t know how to go on. When stern and bow are properly installed and configured, and the asteroid is set spinning, the interior is ready to be terraformed. Or even arranged things such that you might be able to step in a bit in her absence.”, “Well, you designed many of the terraria out there, and now they form the bulk of the Mondragon Accord. Mqaret was in his office, sitting in his chair, staring through the wall at nothing. I usually go out for a week or two.”, “We were made to do this, you know,” she said suddenly. A few times they also saw the ashes of little fires, with little bones in them not fully burned. 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. Mqaret gestured. He didn’t want to discuss it, she saw. She put the other tab up to Pauline’s membrane, in the skin at the base of her neck. Nearby there was a town called Billie Holliday, where Wahram had once worked in a giant waldo, covering the dry ice in the lowlands with foamed rock. She wondered how long that would last—seemed like it could be forever, and she felt a bolt of fear. A sudden collapse, and they hadn’t been able to revive her. Seasons inside your terrarium will be rendered accordingly. “Yes.” This was presumptuous enough to irritate her, but on the other hand, she had in fact been searching for something to distract her, something to do in the aftermath, and nothing had come to her. “I know,” Swan said, feeling a stab. ― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312. tags: 2312, humans, kim-stanley-robison, robots, science-fiction, work. But if she had done anything like this, she would have to have figured out some kind of method. Alex had wanted always to keep her business offline, out of the cloud, unrecorded, live only, in real time only. But that’s why you might remember if she had ever said anything out of keeping with her usual optimism.”, “No. Wang will explain more to you, as will Wahram from Titan. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and GALILEO'S DREAM. It is an unexpected death, ... Kim Stanley Robinson. When the elephants went silent, she asked the zoologist leading their group to explain why the sunline’s twilight had gone on so long the previous evening. You hear of it happening. “I mostly keep her turned off these days. She needed to go up and join the rest of Alex’s family. “Reality made a mistake, and now you’re fixing it!” She gestured at the screens and cubes. Travel. The observation chamber rang with the sounds of excited and puzzled viewers. Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. (Those wanting a fuller explanation of how to make soil are referred to my bestselling All About Dirt.). Indeed at that point the asteroid was a kind of Medusa’s head, a pretzel sculpture that some considered beautiful and others horrifying, the very image of AI foolishness, or the futility of human effort. “She was my everything.” Swan turned and walked off. If she kicked it on the snout when it attacked, possibly it would miss and fall. Perhaps all his movement was a similar thing. Kim Stanley Robinson will publish his next novel in October: The Ministry for the Future.As with many of his recent novels, like New York 2140, 2312… “Unusual luck to see such a thing,” he remarked as she approached. It was a small but steep-walled crater, a handsome circular space under the stars. Wahram went to a little Saturn House in the first town, called Plum Lake, and checked in. All Alex’s things, scattered as always. This terrarium, Yggdrasil, had suffered a catastrophic break; an unnoticed ice-filled crack had blown open, in more of an explosion than a leak. She needs to hurry. Or if they stay on purpose. Mixed in was a bit of classical mythology—including a portrait of Mercury himself, with stylish gold shoes covering his feet, the shoes sporting slots through which Mercury’s wings emerged. In 2312, the author goes beyond advances in technology, though,… Prognathous, callipygous, steatopygous, exophthalmos—toad, newt, frog—even the very words were ugly. The novel won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In the town, if she came by his restaurant, she ate by herself. “It’s very crowded,” she said. Reach Trilogy begins with this Nebula Award-winning novel that reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a ... Outlander meets post-Civil War unrest in the conclusion to Melissa Lenhardt's fast-paced historical series.A fast-paced ... Outlander meets post-Civil War unrest in the conclusion to Melissa Lenhardt's fast-paced historical series.A fast-paced 2312 is a bold vision of humanity's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events. You are a creature of the sun. “My dear Swan, I am sorry you are hearing this,” Alex’s voice said. Air knocked out of her, no more scream. People were strange. “I’m thinking about those cheetahs,” he said, startled, hoping she was speaking to him, even though there was no one else in the room. I avidly read his Mars Trilogy, which describes in great clarity the terraforming of the Red Planet. “There’s a lot to think about.”, “I suppose I read. That is soon to occur, and Swan should be there too. The cubes on his desk contained representations of proteins, the bright false colors tangled beyond all hope of untangling. 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Tall clumps of grass obscured the view beyond his immediate locality; one could see more up where the park curved over the nearby treetops. The inspector appeared on the verge of another question, but in the end did not say it. Thanks for coming by.”. “How so, Socrates?”, “ ‘Exergasia’ means ‘use of different phrases to express the same idea,’ ‘synathroesmus’ means ‘accumulation by enumeration,’ and ‘incrementum’ means ‘piling up points to make an argument.’ So listing them does all three, yes?”. In thanks, Swan gives him a job off-planet. Star oh star, about to break on them! She had to greet all those who had been closest to Alex, and give Mqaret a brief rough hug, and withstand the look on his face. Nothing but women and men. Swan, this is Fitz Wahram, from Titan. They sat in silence as the tram slid over the dark face of Mercury. Balancing the rock that would be the crest of the breaking wave had taken them a great number of unsuccessful efforts, and as so often with Alex, Swan had ended up laughing so hard her stomach hurt. The subjects of the portraits, on the other hand, looked at her with expressions she recognized immediately. Cheeks burning, Swan approached them. And now, looking left at some motion, he saw another person: Swan. “Most people do.”, “Yes.” He gestured at the sunwalkers, whom they were rapidly leaving behind. Meanwhile, Swan and Wahram become involved in restoring and re-wilding the climate-change-ravaged Earth by returning thousands of species from space-based temporary environments to their home environments on the Earth. He too was upset, Swan saw. “Gran, can I have another look around her study?”. But then it got even worse when their taxi unloaded them into a terrarium headed Jupiterward, and it turned out to be the Pleistocene, another of her youthful indiscretions, an ice age north with any number of spavined megafauna resurrected and clomping around in pathetic mutant versions of themselves. Wahram spent most of his days in the park; it became the heart of this particular pseudoiterative. Thus the ferry they were in had them seated sideways to the ground, but as it careened around and up, their floor became most definitely down, and then with dizzying speed they were launched into space, going so fast that if there had been an atmosphere they would have burned to a crisp the moment they left the tube. Sad Swan’s bloodshot eyes. She turned on the stairs and descended, wandered by herself. ", "A feast for the imagination and intellect - shockingly clever", "Complex and sometimes bewildering, 500 pages crammed full of strange but decent characters whose actions play out against a vastly constructed utopian background. Alternatively you can block the corona, and look only at the sun’s photosphere, and even magnify your view of it, until the burning tops of the convection cells are revealed in their squiggling thousands, each a thunderhead of fire burning furiously, all together torching five million tons of hydrogen a second—at which rate the star will burn another four billion years. 2,322 reviews. Her spacesuit has a big round clear helmet. She couldn’t grasp it. This is the g equivalent, or gequivalent. As Swan, the saturnine diplomat Fitz Wahram, and interplanetary investigator Jean Genette delve into the possible connections among a series of mysterious incidents, 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. 2312 - Ebook written by Kim Stanley Robinson. Most of the terraria offering passenger transport around the solar system were extremely fast, but even so, trips often took weeks. Stravinsky and Vyasa. After a blank silence, she said, “Do you know what happened to her?”, He shook his head quickly, as if this was an irrelevance. But please keep the matter entirely to yourself. The little voice went on: “Very sorry, in fact, because if you’re hearing this, it means I’m gone. Rabbit or fawn, cooked over a little fire… One would have to keep an eye out for hyenas if one did that. The beauty and terror of it seen from so close can empty any mind, thrust anyone into a trance. When they reached it, they found a little group at the kiosk; these people saw Swan and crowded around her, greeted her cheerfully. 2312 - Ebook written by Kim Stanley Robinson. I don’t know what I was thinking. The twenty tracks run around Mercury like a narrow wedding band, keeping near the forty-fifth latitude south, but with wide detours to south and north to avoid the worst of the planet’s long escarpments. The cubs arrived late, and Wahram wondered if their lesson had taught them anything but the need to grow up, the need to run fast. “Alex meant a great deal to me, and to a lot of us. “I am a quantum computer, model Ceres 2196a.”, “She is one of the first and weakest of the qubes,” Swan said. The city illuminates the dark landscape around it like a passing lamp; the illumination is very noticeable except at those times when high cliffs west of the city reflect horizontal sunlight into town. "2312 is a monumental tour-de-force that re-imagines the solar system in ways no one has envisioned before. Her beloved grandmother, Alex, has just died. Wahram moved all the way back to the clear inner wall to look at this one for a while, then took his more usual position nuzzling it. You’ll have to come back.”, “I hope,” he said. Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312" was released on May 22 of this year. Alex’s memorial ceremony began as Swan was straggling up Terminator’s great central staircase. She definitely slept out there, and one night in the kitchen remarked that she never slept indoors if she could avoid it, although of course the entire terrarium was indoors in a certain sense. An amazing accomplishment. This was simply too much time to be banging around aimlessly; doing that one could easily slide into a funk or some other kind of mental hibernation. There was some searching to be done, in other words, some testing of different possibilities. Now, if one were standing on the promenade topping the city Terminator’s great Dawn Wall, one would spot her there to the south, out near the horizon. As now, for instance, when beyond a cloud he saw the tops of a sheet of flocking birds, flying over the surface of a lake hanging directly over his head. “So they knew you designed this terrarium,” Wahram said as they walked. “Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. The orange banners diverge left and right from the point of first appearance, as if a fire set just over the horizon is spreading north and south. “It can be anything. The lit part of the sunline was now far toward the fore end of the terrarium, its light slanting back with a sunset tint. I mean, fixing reality.”, “But it’s good,” Swan said. “What do you think?” they asked her. Wahram consulted his wristpad: “We slide between Hesiod and Sibelius,” he announced with a little smile. “Pauline,” she said after she left, “you got the contents of that tab?”, “I am instructed to convey the information to Wang’s qube, on Io.”, “But tell me just generally what’s on it.”. Begin with a light dusting of heavy metals and rare earths, as specified for the biome you are trying to create. A-lex! Wahram dipped his head in a kind of autistic bow. Title: 2312 Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Orbit Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 561 Pages The Hugo and Nebula nominated and New York Times bestselling novel. Others not. This is kind of an insurance policy, because I’ve got some things going on that need to continue even if I die, and I don’t want to tell anyone else here about them. I hate to do even this much. Giant short-faced bears, looking around in openmouthed confusion—also dire wolves, saber-toothed tigers, American cheetahs, mastodons, and woolly mammoths, most of them only semi-genuine revivals from ancient DNA, really synthetics, birthed from elephants or lions or Kodiak bears, and thus uneducated in the ways of their kind. So there is reason to worry about Swan Er Hong, a person more inclined than most to try things just to see. She wouldn’t talk to Pauline without asking me first, I’m sure of it.”, Mqaret heaved another sigh. Humans have terraformed and colonised every inhabitable planet and moon. Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel, The Ministry for the Future, has now been published by Orbit Books!As with many KSR novels, it reads both like a commentary and expansion on previous novels of his, it is a wake-up call to action, and it is an experiment in literary form that goes hand in hand with the story it … He was white-faced, his mouth a little knot. People didn’t want to give it up; somehow that would be the end, they would at that very moment lose her. Alex had been her friend, protector, teacher, step-grandmother, surrogate mother, all that—but also, a way to laugh. Vision audacieuse et brillante du futur de l’humanité couronnée par le Nebula du meilleur roman, 2312 est sans doute le roman le plus accompli de Kim Stanley Robinson et assurément l'une des oeuvres de science-fiction les plus ambitieuses de la décennie. “It looks like a kind of Venice.”. He was just barely there, she saw. Eventually they did give it up, and lived on into the post-Alex phase of their lives. We break, Swan. This is the finest novel yet from the author who gave us the Mars Trilogy and GALILEO'S DREAM. Particular filters or sequences of filters become forms of worship, rituals either personal or shared. She didn’t leave me anything either, as far as I know. And that inspector too. The world he has created draws from the Mars trilogy but stands alone with new and interesting places. There was a roar from the park, the sound of applause. "—Boingboing"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. Changes in light, slight tilts in pitch, these make it seem as if the town were a ship, sailing over a black ocean with waves so large that when in their troughs, the ship drops into the night, then on high points crests back into day. It looked like this mother was trying to teach her cubs how to hunt; she squashed one down with a forepaw to get it to flatten. They angled in at it and then Wegener shot by just above the atmosphere, maximizing the gravity sling. Most of the sunwalkers over time try all the various viewing filters, and then make choices to suit themselves. So the next morning he left the Saturn House after breakfast and walked back to the park, and at the kiosk joined a group going out to track a little elephant herd. And Alex wouldn’t do that anyway. But there are so many ways. So the sun is part of her art. The sight of it can strike thought clean out of your head. She had liked the look of it. Now she spotted the rock wave, still out there—it was just visible from the city. Aristoxenus, Ashvaghosha. “It would be a way to pass the time,” the man suggested. like a distant memory. “2312” is a hard science fiction novel that is packed with interesting characters, beautiful story and advanced science rules. “That I was giving you too much credit in thinking you were using many different devices, when really you only have the one method, because these are distinctions without a difference.”. The big man saw the change in her and extended a hand. “No it doesn’t,” Swan said crossly, thinking hard. Kim Stanley Robinson is a "New York Times" bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. “One visit will never do. And sometimes there is. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read 2312. Wang and I and a few others are working on a couple of very important projects together, and we’ve been trying to keep completely offline with them, which is very difficult to do when we live so far apart. Now Wegener flashed by it so fast that the people in the observation bubble could not blink without missing it; it grew from a dot to a basketball to a dot in the course of a single indrawn breath. The moment she had heard the news, she had dashed out of the city onto the land, driven by a need to be alone. 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. “If it was important, and she was keeping things off the record, she would have known her death might cause problems. In a landscape so rumpled the light can suddenly jump the eastern horizon and leap west to strike some distant prominence. To Captain Lee Harden, the mission to rescue his countrymen and rebuild the nation seems ... To Captain Lee Harden, the mission to rescue his countrymen and rebuild the nation seems “It’s true, but you see, there are reasons to be discreet….” He looked down at Genette as if hoping for help. Kurosawa, Lu Hsün, Ma Chih-yüan. Swan identified a long low hill on the horizon as the outer wall of Hesiod Crater. She wandered around the study, looking at things. All had written on one side In Case of My Death; on the other sides they were marked For Mqaret, For Swan, and For Wang on Io. Terminator began to glide past the platform that held the Tintoretto tram station. Then the rest of the word is hidden in a fold. Maybe twelve meters to the ground, terrarium spinning at one g—for a second she cursed the long-ago shift away from Martian g in terraria, which at first had been the norm—then fear drove all thought from her head. So… possibly you could go out with me and meet some people.”, “I don’t want to do that. 2312 is a bold vision of humanity's future and a compelling portrait of those individuals who will shape its events. Masses of spicules flow together like kelp beds threshed by a tide. “And… you are quite certain Alex didn’t leave anything for you? .exhilarating. One woman had her left nipple exposed, just under the curve of a necklace; in most periods that would have been transgressive, she seemed to recall. But Wahram had only just kept himself from laughing. After a while the big man said in a gentle rumble, “What will you do now?”, Swan shrugged. “Adrenalate fully, then do something bizarre.”. Or maybe she could. The date is given away by the title; the setting is a solar system full of terraforming, habitats, and explosive human colonization. Or so it was said by Mercurial curators. But I could see she thought it was important. But by the time some of the sunwalkers manage to jerk themselves free, they are stunned—trip and fall—get up and dash west, in a panic like no other. Wahram was very aware of this, having lived the process many times; so he paid attention to what he did when he traveled, on the lookout for those first repetitions that would create the pattern of that particular moment in his life. Maybe that was Tintoretto’s idea of paradise.”. Mqaret nodded at this, unsurprised. One of the portraits glowered, another tried to suppress a little ironic smile; they agreed with her. So Swan hunted through small stacks of paper on her desk, still thinking it over. Put all the ice gathered in your scraping aside, except for enough when melted to make your crumbled rock matrix moist. “Are you out here alone?”, “Alone, yes.” She was looking at him curiously. Even at their closest approach it was still a mess of stippling. The chiral wind was rushing down from the left, so he was crosswind to the cats; they would not smell him. In the nakedness of the moments of exfoliation, the intensity of experience had in it a touch of terror—terror that no new meaning would blossom to replace the old ones now lost. 2312 is a thrilling space opera and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, from the bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson From the Inside Flap The year is 2312. 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