Kim Stanley Robinson

Tercera y última entrega de la trilogía Marte.Los colonos de Marte han trabajado mucho tiempo en la «terraformación» del planeta rojo y han llegado a producir una atmósfera habitable, similar a la de

Kim Stanley Robinson vuelve a sus orígenes con una novela del estilo de Marte Rojo, su best seller que le valió los premios Hugo y Nébula.ESTAMOS EN UN FUTURO DEL QUE NOS SEPARAN TREINTA AÑOS, Y HEMOS COLONIZADO LA LUNA. El estadounidense Fred Fredericks se embarca en su primer viaje con el objetivo de instalar un sistema de comunicaciones para la Fundacion de Ciencia Lunar de China. Pero unas pocas horas despues de su llegada es testigo de un asesinato y se ve obligado a esconderse. Tambien es su primera visita para el famoso periodista de viajes Ta Shu. Es una persona con contactos e influencia, pero descubrira que la luna puede ser un lugar peligroso para cualquier visitante.En ultimo lugar tenemos a Chan Qi. Es hija del ministro de Finanzas y, sin duda, esta en el punto de mira de personas poderosas. Se encuentra en la luna por motivos personales, pero cuando intenta regresar a China, los acontecimientos que se produciran lo cambiaran todoen la luna y en la Tierra.Luna roja es una magnifica novela sobre exploracion espacial y revoluciones politicas de mano de un autor habitual en las listas de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times.

Segunda entrega de la trilogía emblemática que encumbró a Kim Stanley Robinson.Ha pasado casi una generación desde la llegada de los Primeros Cien. Tras la violenta y fracasada revolución de 2061, el Marte rojo ha desaparecido. Meteoritos de hielo bombardean la atmosfera para hacerla mas humeda; en el desierto se siembran plantas transgenicas, los crateres se transforman en praderas y el hielo de los polos en lagos helados.La nueva generacion de colonos esta expuesta a insurrecciones, conflictos y pruebas. Supervivientes de los Primeros Cien, entre ellos Hiroko, Nadia, Maya y Simon, saben que la tecnologia no es suficiente. La creacion de un nuevo mundo requiere confianza y colaboracion, pero esas cualidades son tan escasas como el aire mismo que respiran en Marte...

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel Discover the novel that launched one of science fictions most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinsons masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization. A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.Arthur C. Clarke For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. And massive tunnels drilled into the mantle will create stupendous vents of hot gases. But despite these ambitious goals, there are some who would fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed.

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.

A sublime and radically original exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his lifemore than a hundred tripsand has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth.Over the course of a vivid and dramatic narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the Sierras and the history of its exploration, going back to the indigenous peoples who made it home and whose traces can still be found today. He celebrates the people whose ideas and actions protected the High Sierra for future generations. He describes uniquely beautiful hikes and the trails to be avoided. Robinsons own life-altering events, defining relationships, and unforgettable adventures form the narratives spine. And he illuminates the human communion with the wild and with the sublime, including the personal growth that only seems to come from time spent outdoors.The High Sierra is a gorgeous, absorbing immersion in a place, born out of a desire to understand and share one of the greatest rapture-inducing experiences our planet offers. Packed with maps, gear advice, more than 100 breathtaking photos, and much more, it will inspire veteran hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers to prepare for a magnificent adventure.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his power

From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all. The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanitys only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. 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. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.

La Terre est en danger. Et si des mesures drastiques pour freiner le réchauffement climatique ne sont pas prises, lhumanité court droit à sa perte. Cette année, Washington vit un hiver des plus capri

Des pluies diluviennes ont submergé Washington. Peu à peu, les eaux se retirent, mais les inondations ont eu des conséquences effroyables... Beaucoup de logements sont devenus inhabitables, les sans-

At the north pole of the planet Pluto there stands an icehenge created out of slabs towering 200 feet above the crater-pocked surface. The first mission to Pluto must ask themselves, is it an alien message? Or could it mark a human mystery left by a crew who might have passed decades ago?

Demain à Washington... Anna et Charlie Quibler oeuvrent aux applications des découvertes scientifiques visant à améliorer la vie sur terre, Anna comme chef de projet à la National Science Foundation,

The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinson''s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ''The ultimate in future history'' Daily Mail Mars has grown up It is fully terraformed -- genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas. It is politically independent. A brave and buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth. Earth has grown too much Chronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources. For too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for! perhaps even die for.

Una obra de investigación literaria sobre los cuentos y leyendas que inspiraron a J.R.R. Tolkien. David Day muestra que El Señor de los Anillos continua una larga tradición que nació junto con las civilizaciones y que J.R.R. Tolkien creo una nueva mitologia para los lectores del siglo veinte inspirandose en leyendas y mitos de la antiguedad.Con doce ilustraciones en color de Alan Lee, artista y ilustrador de El Señor de los Anillos.

The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson''s massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. ''The ultimate in future history'' Daily Mail Mars -- the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind''s dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists -- hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert -- Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing! for civilization can be very uncivilized.

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his power