1 Feb 2010

"Best Of KSR" contents released

Submitted by Kimon

The contents of the upcoming "The Best Of Kim Stanley Robinson" have been released. It contains short stories and novellas from the entirety of Stan's career, from the 1980s throughout the 2000s. It is edited by Jonathan Strahan and is expected to be released mid-2010 in the USA by Night Shade Books, in hardcover.

The 300-page volume includes 23 stories: 5 from The Planet On The Table, the novella The Blind Geometer, one novella from Escape From Kathmandu, 10 from Remaking History, 3 from The Martians, and 3 previously uncollected stories (including one never before published):

  • Venice Drowned
  • Black Air
  • Ridge Running
  • The Lucky Strike
  • Our Town
  • The Blind Geometer (previously uncollected)
  • Mother Goddess Of The World
  • Glacier
  • Remaking History
  • The Lunatics
  • Before I Wake
  • The Translator
  • Zurich
  • A History Of The Twentieth Century, With Illustrations
  • A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions
  • Muir On Shasta
  • Vinland The Dream
  • Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars
  • Sexual Dimorphism
  • Discovering Life
  • How Science Saved The World (previously uncollected)
  • Prometheus Unbound, At Last (previously uncollected)
  • The Timpanist Of The Berlin Philharmonic, 1942 (previously unpublished)
  • Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson

Night Shade Books page