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While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for his hard science fiction works Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars, the epic trilogy exploring ecological and sociological themes involved in human settlement of the Red Planet, his contributions to utopian science fiction are diverse and numerous. Along with aspects of sociology and ecology in the Mars trilogy and other topics, these essays examine Robinson's use of alternate history and politics, both in his many novels and in his short stories.

While Robinson has long been a subject of literary criticism, this collection, which includes five new essays and is drawn from writers on four continents, broadens the interpretive debate surrounding Robinson's science fiction and argues for consideration of the author as an intellectual figure of the first rank.

Contents:

• 1 - Preface and Acknowledgments (Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays) - essay by William J. Burling
• 3 - Introduction (Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays) - essay by William J. Burling
• 11 - Witness to Hard Times: Robinson's Other California - essay by Tom Moylan [as by Thomas P. Moylan]
• 48 - "If I Find One Good City, I Will Spare the Man": Realism and Utopia in the Mars Trilogy - (2000) - essay by Fredric Jameson
• 67 - Falling Into History: Imagined Wests in the "Three Californias" and Mars Trilogy - (2003) - essay by Carl Abbott
• 83 - Remaking History: The Short Fiction - essay by John Kessel
• 95 - The Martians: A Habitable Fabric of Possibilities - (1999) - essay by Nick Gevers
• 98 - Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicites and the 1990's in The Years of Rice and Salt - essay by Phillip E. Wegner
• 115 - The Density of Utopian Destiny in Red Mars - (1997) - essay by Carol Franko
• 122 - Falling Into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-Economics in the Mars Trilogy - (1997) - essay by Robert Markley
• 144 - Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in the Mars Trilogy - (2002) - essay by Elizabeth Leane
• 157 - The Theoretical Foundation of Utopian Radical Democracy in Blue Mars - (2005) - essay by William J. Burling
• 170 - The Politics of the Network: The Science in the Capital Trilogy - essay by Roger Luckhurst
• 181 - Living Thought: Genes, Genres and Utopia in the Science in the Capital Trilogy - essay by Gib Prettyman
• 204 - "Structuralist Alchemy" in Red Mars - essay by William J. White
• 227 - Ecological Newspeak - (1997) - essay by Alan R. Slotkin
• 231 - Murray Bookchin on Mars! The Production of Nature in the Mars Trilogy - (2002) - essay by Shaun Huston (variant of Murray Bookchin on Mars! The Production of Nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy)
• 242 - The Mars Trilogy and the Leopoldian Land Ethic - (2003) - essay by Eric Otto
• 257 - Dead Penguins in Immigrant Pilchard Scandal: Telling Stories About "The Environment" in Antarctica - essay by Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint
• 277 - A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson - interview of Kim Stanley Robinson - interview by Bud Foote [as by Irving F. 'Bud' Foote]
• 292 - A Select Secondary Bibliography - essay by William J. Burling
• 297 - About the Contributors (Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays) - essay by uncredited
• 301 - Index (Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays) - essay by uncredited

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