Antarctica

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"Antarctica"
A novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Cover of the 1997 Voyager edition, artwork by Peter Elson
First published	September 15, 1997
Pages	414 (Voyager 1997 edition)
ISBN #	978-0002253598
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Antarctica is Robinson's first novel published after the success of the Mars trilogy. However, because of the similarity in the themes of both works, Antarctica has been called "White Mars" by some. Antarctica describes the small Antarctic society and their struggle to keep Antarctica safe from the potential exploitation of its fossil fuel resources. It shares some characters with the Science In The Capital trilogy, such as Wade Norton and US Senator Phil Chase.

Antarctica was written as a result of Robinson's experience in the continent itself during a visit organized by the "Artists & Writers" program of the National Science Foundation in 1995^[1].

Contents 1 Summary 2 Characters 3 Themes 4 Quotes 5 Publication History 6 Cover Gallery 7 Essays and Criticism 8 Reviews 9 Resources 10 Notes

[edit] Summary

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[edit] Characters

• Wade Norton

• Phil Chase

[edit] Themes

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[edit] Quotes

• Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

[edit] Publication History

• Voyager (UK), September 1997
• Voyager (Australia & NZ), September 1997
• Presses de la Cité, as S.O.S. Antarctica, (French translation) June 1998
• Bantam Spectra (USA), July 1998
• Easton Press (USA), July 1998
• Bantam/Science Fiction Book Club, (USA) September 1998
• Voyager, (UK) paperback, September 1998
• Libre Expression, as S.O.S. Antarctica, (Canada, French translation) February 1999
• Bantam (USA) paperback, July 1999
• Prószyński i S-ka, as Antarktyka, (Polish translation) September 1999
• Cicero, as Antarktis, (Danish translation) October 1999
• Minotauro, as Antártida, (Spanish translation) November 1999
• Otava, as Antarktika, (Finnish translation) 2000
• Heyne, as Antarktika, (German translation) 2001
• 講談社, as 南極大陸 (Japanese translation, 2 volumes) December 2003
• Voyager (UK) paperback, October 2008
• Bantam Spectra (USA) eBook, July 2010

[edit] Cover Gallery

Voyager, Uncorrected Proof, 1997	Voyager Hardcover, September 1997, cover art by Peter Elson	Voyager Export Paperback, September 1997, cover art by Peter Elson
Bantam, Uncorrected Page Proofs, 1998	Bantam, Advance Reader Copy, 1998, cover art by P. A. Nisbet	Bantam, Promotional Letter from KSR, 1998
Bantam, Promotional Letter from KSR, 1998	Presses de la Cité, June 1998	Bantam, Hardcover, July 1998, cover art by P. A. Nisbet
Easton Press, Leather Bound, July 1998	Easton Press, July 1998, interior art by Byron Taylor	Voyager Export Paperback, September 1998, cover art by P. A. Nisbet
Libre Expression, February 1999, cover art by Esben Hardtt	Voyager Export Paperback, September 1999, cover art by Peter Elson	Bantam, paperback, July 1999, cover art by Galen Rowell
Demco, library binding, 1999, cover art by Galen Rowell	Prószyński i S-ka, September 1999	Cicero, October 1999
Minotauro, November 1999	Otava, 2000, cover art by Heikki Kalliomaa	Heyne, 2001, cover art by Arndt Drechsler
Kodansha (講談社), December 2003, vol. 1	Kodansha (講談社), December 2003, vol. 2	Victoria University Press, November 2004 (contains excerpts)
Granta Books, March 2007 (contains excerpts)	Granta Books, September 2007 (contains excerpts)	Bloomsbury, October 2007 (contains excerpts)
Voyager Paperback, October 2008	Granta Books, October 2008 (contains excerpts)

[edit] Essays and Criticism

• Introduction, Robert Silverberg, Easton Press, 1997
• Scripts Deep Enough: Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica, Paul Voermans, The New York Review of Science Fiction #125, 1999
• "The moment is here ... and it's important": State, Agency, and Dystopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling, Tom Moylan, in Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, Routledge, 2003
• Unfinished business: subjectivity and supervision, Bill Green, Higher Education Research & Development, Volume 24, Issue 2, 2005
• Dead Penguins in Immigrant Pilchard Scandal: Telling Stories About "the Environment" in Antarctica, Sherryl Vint and Mark Bould, in Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable, McFarland, 2009
• Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South, Elizabeth Leane, Cambridge University Press, 2012

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[edit] Resources

• Original artwork for UK edition, from Peter Elson

• Reviews at KimStanleyRobinson.info

• Antarctica at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• Antarctica at Google Books

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ Anarctic Artists & Writers Program at NSF