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- Title
Future Politics: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Authors
Szeman, Imre; Whiteman, Maria
- Abstract
Presents an interview with famous science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. The interview was conducted at the conference "The Futures of Utopia" held at Duke University in 2003. The conference celebrated the work of the cultural theorist Fredric Jameson. On being asked about United States President George W. Bush's announcement that the United States will pursue the establishment of a permanent moon base followed by a manned mission to Mars which constitutes a genuine object of investigation, or if is it being used by the current Administration for its own political purposes, he replied that Mars as a planet for comparative studies is of high value. Then the interviewer asked him about his new book, "Forty Signs of Rain," which is set in the hothouse of Washington politics. He is also questioned about his another book, "The Years of Rice and Salt." When asked about his novels that they constitute one of the most sustained and thorough investigations of the implications and repercussions of the system of global capitalism in literature today in quite subtle and sophisticated ways and that he returns to the trauma induced by private property, the corporation, scientific progress, and accumulation, he said that science to him is an attempt at a solution, a utopian politics.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ROBINSON, Kim Stanley, 1952-; AUTHORS; SCIENCE fiction; 40 Signs of Rain (Book); YEARS of Rice &; Salt, The (Book); UTOPIAS
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Interview