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Vinland the Dream: And Other Stories
 
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Vinland the Dream: And Other Stories (Paperback)

by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Voyager (7 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007134045
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007134045
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #6 in  Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Authors, A-Z > R > Robinson, Kim Stanley
    #26 in  Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Short Stories

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From reviews of the Mars Trilogy 'One of the landmarks of American literature' TLS 'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail

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A new collection of stories including previously unpublished material from the author of the seminal MARS series. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's outstanding stylists and storytellers. His award-winning short fiction shows off his versatility and talent. This new collection brings together fifteen memorable stories, some of them never before published. Peopled by characters that speak to us directly, and illuminated by reflections that are timeless and haunting, the stories explore different pasts and divergent futures. They revolve around questions of history and meaning, and how what we know about the past influences the way we look at the present and the future. The stories so far are: 'Discovering Life', 'Venice Drowned', 'Mercurial' 'Ridge Running', 'The Disguise', 'The Lucky Strike', 'Coming Back to Dixieland', 'Stone Eggs', 'Black Air', '"A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"', 'Remaking History', 'Vinland the Dream', 'Muir on Shaster', 'A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions'.

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4.0 out of 5 stars How to mess with time in fourteen short stories..., 2 Feb 2003
By Ms. R. Jones (UK) - See all my reviews
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Vinland the Dream is a collection of short stories based on the theme of alternative timelines past and future. The book manages to portray events as they might have been had chance taken a different direction. The stories maintain the realism displayed in the Mars trilogy, the ultimate in future historical vision. As ever Robinson's characters are vivid and deep thinking, although the format of the book intrinsically means they are not as fully developed as in longer works. The style of the book is wonderfully detailed and very enjoyable. This is a great addition to any Science Fiction collection.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading if you liked his other books, 6 Jun 2009
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This is a book of short stories by the author of "Red Mars" and "the Years of Rice and Salt". Really worth reading if you liked his major novels. The title story may be the best one: an archaeologist discovers that the proofs of the Viking's travel to the New World, the artifacts found in L'Anse of Meadows in Newfoundland, are forgeries. We are confronted with the strange nostalgia of loosing an important fragment of what we thought was our History.
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