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Falling into History: The Imagined Wests of Kim Stanley Robinson in the "Three Californias" and Mars Trilogies

2003; Oxford University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/25047207

1939-8603

Carl Abbott,

Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

California science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has imagined the future of Southern California in three novels published 1984–1990, and the settlement of Mars in another trilogy published 1993–1996. In framing these narratives he worked in explicitly historical terms and incorporated themes and issues that characterize the "new western history" of the 1980s and 1990s, thus providing evidence of the resonance of that new historiography.