Kim Stanley Robinson Zitate

Interview http://www.locusmag.com/1997/Issues/09/KSRobinson.html in Locus, (September 1997)
Kontext: 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.

Coyote ("What Is to Be Done?", p. 370)
Green Mars (1993)
Kontext: Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you have to argue point by point. Especially since the minimalists want to keep the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. No! If you want to make the minimum-state case, you have to argue it from the ground up.

Quelle: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 14, p. 329

Quelle: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 280
Kontext: We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

John Boone
Red Mars (1992)
Kontext: 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.

John Boone
Red Mars (1992)
Kontext: 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.

Quelle: Icehenge

Quelle: Green Mars

Quelle: Red Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993)

Quelle: Red Mars (1992)

Quelle: Antarctica

Quelle: Green Mars

Quelle: Red Mars

Frank Chalmers
Red Mars (1992)

Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

As quoted in John Clute, "Scores" http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100118/clute-c.shtml, in Strange Horizons (18 January 2010)
Galileo's Dream (2009)

Book 6: "Widow Kang", Ch. 3
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 2
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Quelle: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 295

Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 2
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

As quoted in "Heroes of the Environment 2008" http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841779_1841803,00.html in Time (24 September 2008)

Quelle: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 284

As quoted in "Future tense" in The Guardian (14 September 2005) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/sep/14/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.sarahcrown

As quoted in "Future tense" in The Guardian (14 September 2005)

Book 4: "The Alchemist", § 11
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

thoughts of Frank Chalmers
Red Mars (1992)

Quelle: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 20, p. 513–514

Nadia Chernyshevski
Green Mars (1993)