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Icehenge

By Kim Stanley Robinson
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SF titan Kim Stanley Robinson’s breakout novel, now in a Tor Essentials edition with a new introduction by Henry Farrell

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.

Decades before his massively successful The Ministry for the Future (2020), Kim Stanley Robinson wrote one of SF’s greatest meditations on extended human lifespan, the limitations of human memory, and the haunted confabulations that go with forgetting.

On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth’s Stonehenge—but ten times the size, standing alone at the edge of the Solar System. What is it? Who could have built it?

The secret lies in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries.

This new Tor Essentials edition of Icehenge includes a new introduction by Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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Thumbs Up“4.25 Stars Reading this after having read The Mars Trilogy I can see how some of the ideas in this book are related to the trilogy. Kim Stanley Robinson is becoming one of my favorite Sci-Fi authors.”
“On the one hand this has an interesting premise. The icehenge found on Pluto and trying to discover its origins, but not only that - the look into how an extended life of hundreds of years, affects memory and records. How interesting that people who literally lived through big events can have no true memory of them a hundred plus years later, because our brains just struggle to retain things for so long. People literally have to keep journals so they can "remember" their lives and know, hopefully, that its a true memory. It was also cool that this book, written in 1984, had casual homosexual characters/encounters as well as casually mentioned polyamorous relationships. Neither of these things were lingered on, none of them were pushed to the fore of the story, they were just casually noted and we moved on past. But they were there, which is very unusual for classic scifi. Also not sexist, which is a big shocking plus when reading classic scifi. Female characters who had importance, agency, brains, and weren't described in too much, lingering, sexualised, detail. Amazing. Who knew it was possible? On the other hand... the story really dragged on. It gets super detailed, not in a TMI sort of way but in, I don't need to hear descriptions of every step you took on that walk. In fact, I don't need a rundown of every walk you had that week. Good lord, make it end. Sigh. It's a 12 hour long audiobook. Could have been 8 imo.”
“nothing is real. history didn’t happen. we can’t know anything. the rich control everything. this is one of the best books i’ve ever read.”

About Kim Stanley Robinson

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” In 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

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