A major new novel from one of science fiction’s most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.

Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

Any good diplomat wants to follow the expected protocol but it’s often frustratingly hard.

And sometimes unexpectedly easy…

The things diplomats do, they do for quite definite reasons—but not necessarily the ones they claim!

The most important questions seldom have easy answers…

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought — science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.

By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book.

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be—and dreams of playing a crucial role in America’s rebirth.

21st century Orange County, CA is full of designer drugs, freeways that glide and soar. It's a mass-culture, video-saturated world for Jim McPherson who is adrift in society. He lives his life through dreams of the past. Dennis, his dad, is an aerospace engineer involved in military research, a fact that Jim ignores -- until he becomes a minor urban terrorist out of boredom. Father and son, separate for so long, are finally on a collision course.

Entre vérité historique et science-fiction, un portrait original du visionnaire Galilée.

Venise, en 1609. La science est en pleine expansion. Philosophes et mathématiciens mènent leurs recherches à l’ombre de l’Eglise, qui veille à ce que leurs découvertes ne soient surtout pas trop audacieuses. C’est à cette époque que Galilée rencontre un étranger qui l’aide à mettre au point un télescope révolutionnaire. Cette invention va lui ouvrir les portes du monde dont est justement originaire cet homme : Europe, la deuxième lune de Jupiter, en 3020.

Galilée va désormais naviguer entre le XVIIe siècle et le 4e millénaire, rapportant de ses voyages dans le futur de quoi alimenter de nouvelles découvertes. Celles-ci ne tardent pas à lui valoir des accusations d’hérésie. Fusion étonnante d’histoire et de science-fiction, ce roman ambitieux dresse un portrait fouillé et passionnant d’un Galilée plus vrai que nature, tout en redonnant vie au bouillonnement intellectuel et aux controverses du XVIIe siècle.

À Washington, Anna et Charlie Quibler oeuvrent aux applications des découvertes scientifiques visant à améliorer la vie sur terre. L’enjeu est de taille : alerter le monde sur les dangers du réchauffement climatique global et convaincre une administration réticente de prendre les mesures qui s’imposent.

L’urgence devient criante lorsque des pluies torrentielles s’abattent sur la ville, bientôt engloutie sous les eaux. Pour l’humanité, l’adoption des lois préparées par Charlie est désormais une question de vie ou de mort…

At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it. From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future--in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In , the incomparable Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations.

Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her novels, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning and the Pulitzer Prize-winning , and in her new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern predicament and the mysteries of faith. These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life. Whether she is investigating how the work of the great thinkers of the past, Calvin, Locke, Bonhoeffer-and Shakespeare-can infuse our lives, or calling attention to the rise of the self-declared elite in American religious and political life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on display. Exquisite and bold, is a necessary call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural heritage, and to offer grace to one another.

From the award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy comes a thrilling new novel…

Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Mars trilogy, is one of the most original and visionary writers of fiction today. Now, in his latest novel, he takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet—it is the last pure wilderness on earth.

A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty that protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources and eerie beauty to be plundered. As politicians and corporations move to determine its fate from half a world away, radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land. The winner of this critical battle will determine…

The trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with , comes Kim Stanley Robinson’s essential companion to the series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, along with texts on the Martian constitution, maps and Martian inspired poetry. In short, is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson’s oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the red planet.

A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night, and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty-a mysterious watery world encircled by a thin spine of land. Aided by strange tribesmen, he will journey to the cove of the spine kings, a brutal race that has enslaved the woman and several of the tribesmen. That is only the beginning of his quest, as he struggles to find his identity in this cruel and dreamlike land-and seeks out the woman whose grip on his imagination is both unfathomable and unshakable. Haunting and lyrical, filled with uncommon beauty and terrific peril, is an ambitious and enthralling story by one of science fiction's most respected talents. Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of over twenty books and has won every major award in the science fiction genre. Originally published in 1990, remains a singular work in his canon that engages his interests in the environment and plumbs the absurdities of the human condition while charting unique narrative terrain. This anti-oedipal edition includes an insightful introduction by esteemed science fiction scholar and critic Robert Crossley as well as a study guide, both of which encourage readers to explore the literary prowess that makes this novel a rare gem of twentieth century American literature.

While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a similar task — but the case Banks must investigate is as cold as they come.

Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation and it’s Banks’s first task as superintendent to find out the truth.

While Annie struggles with a controversial case threatening to cause uproar in the local community, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence, and as each steps closer to uncovering the truth, they’ll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have guessed...

Es ist die größte Herausforderung, der sich die Menschheit je gegenübersah: die Besiedlung unseres Nachbarplaneten Mars. Die Verwandlung einer lebensfeindlichen Wüstenwelt in einen blauen Planeten wie die Erde. Von der ersten bemannten Landung auf dem Mars über die frühen Kolonien und ihre Auseinandersetzungen, welche Form von Gesellschaft sie erbauen sollen, bis zum riskanten Versuch, das Klima einer ganzen Welt zu verändern — Kim Stanley Robinson erzählt in seiner Mars-Trilogie die Geschichte der Zukunft wie ein großes historisches Epos.

Es ist die größte Herausforderung, der sich die Menschheit je gegenübersah: die Besiedlung unseres Nachbarplaneten Mars. Die Verwandlung einer lebensfeindlichen Wüstenwelt in einen blauen Planeten wie die Erde. Von der ersten bemannten Landung auf dem Mars über die frühen Kolonien und ihre Auseinandersetzungen, welche Form von Gesellschaft sie erbauen sollen, bis zum riskanten Versuch, das Klima einer ganzen Welt zu verändern — Kim Stanley Robinson erzählt in seiner Mars-Trilogie die Geschichte der Zukunft wie ein großes historisches Epos.

Das Terraforming des Mars nimmt seinen Fortgang. Allmählich entsteht ein zweiter »Blauer Planet«, ein neuer Lebensraum für die Menschheit. Doch die ersten Siedler wehren sich, ihre neue Heimat von einem Millionenheer unersättlicher Neuankömmlinge überfluten und ausbeuten zu lassen.