... of the city as a natural system contrasts with conventional dystopian visions of future cities as scenarios of exploitation, crisis, and disaster. Science-fiction novelist, Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 uses high-modernist literary strategies to create a narrative of cities and planets as humanly transformed...

...David Sergeant Abstract This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against...

... that is seemingly destined to extinguish it. Consequently, both novels turn to a formal modeling in which individual and collective can supposedly blend without either suffering reduction—a maneuver also characteristic of many theoretical discussions of planetarity. Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora (2015), in contrast...

... nothing that science fiction itself has not done before. Kim Stanley Robinson, mentioned in Jameson's essay (and his book's dedicatee), has given us some powerful examples. Robinson's 2312 (part of a longer sequence, including the Mars trilogy [see Archaeologies of the Future 393–416 ], last...

...). In the nineteenth century, when utopian novels could be bestsellers, one of their selling points was the excitement of the utopia as blueprint, as an adventure in actual social engineering. (For a recent and uplifting example, see Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future .) In the sixties-influenced...

... the relationship between new technologies and economic and political forms as these manifest themselves in novels by Dave Eggers and Kim Stanley Robinson. The extent to which the novel is able to position itself as a counterforce—what Sergeant describes as “the constructive potential of aesthetic form in relation...

.... One thing that stands out about these successes is their surprising scope—whether ecocritical like Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam series, blustery like George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire (which birthed Game of Thrones ), or as talky and Weberian as Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars , Green Mars...

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... that “funny cli-fi” has clear antecedents in the fictions of Octavia Butler, David Brin, Kurt Vonnegut, Kim Stanley Robinson, and John Brunner ( Traub 90 ). While the comedic mode likely produces ethical engagements different from those elicited by the implied defeatism of environmental writing wedded...

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