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Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) is a science fiction novelist.
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- Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. The whole process of science is wildly under-represented in science fiction because it's not easy to write about. There are many facets of science that are almost exactly opposite of dramatic narrative. It's slow, tedious, inconclusive, it's hard to tell good guys from bad guys — it's everything that a normal hour of Star Trek is not.
[edit] Red Mars (1992)
- The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.
- Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
- They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.
- thoughts of Frank Chalmers
- Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
[edit] Green Mars (1993)
- You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
- It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
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