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Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

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Now Out from Kim Stanley Robinson:

Galileo’s Dream (Paperback – August 2010)

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In Late Renaissance Italy the great scientist Galileo creates a powerful new telescope to explore the universe.

But one night a stranger presents a different kind of telescope for Galileo to peer through, and Galileo himself is not sure if he is in a dream, an enchantment, a vision, or something yet undefined.

Galileo will soon find himself straddling two worlds: the medieval and the modern. By day his life unfurls in the early seventeenth-century Italy, by night he is transported through dimensions of time and space no other man of his time could comprehend.

This sumptuous and suspenseful novel brings to us Galileo as we have always wanted to know him.

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This month’s rediscovered treasure comes from Voyager Publishing supremo Jane Johnson.

Publishing Kim Stanley Robinson‘s MARS trilogy remains one of my proudest achievements in 25 years in the industry: it’s a towering, glorious epic, telling 300 years of future history focusing on the terraforming and colonizing of the Red Planet in three chunky volumes: RED MARS, GREEN MARS and BLUE MARS, and it deservedly won praise worldwide, and just about every major award for which it was eligible. The most delightful plaudit received was a note from a group NASA scientists engaged in a Mars-simulation project in Antarctica. We had sent them a proof of RED MARS — they wrote back saying they loved it so much, and found it so accurate and gripping, that competition to read the proof was fierce and that in the end they’d had to tear the proof into two so that they could pass it around quicker!