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Kim Stanley Robinson

1952 CE –

One of the greatest living science fiction writers with books translated into 24 languages, The Atlantic called him "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." Avid backpacker, sometimes stay-at-home-dad, and cohousing member; his 20+ books portray scientists as heroes with an obligation to ensure good uses for their discoveries and stress environmental themes, sustainability, alternatives to capitalism, and social justice. In 2008, Time magazine gave him a “Hero of the Environment” award.

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Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson (13 quotes)

“Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around but also… self-reproducing… They showed up and worked, generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything.”

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Chapters: 80. A Golden Age

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“Best self-interest lies in achieving universal well-being… When the goal of self-=interest is seen to be perfectly isomorphic with universal well-being, bad people will do what it takes to get universal well-being.”

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Chapters: 30. No War

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“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are — that's all you need”

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“A recipe for a successful revolution.: Take large masses of injustice, resentment and frustration. Put them in a weak or failing hegemon. Stir in misery for a generation or two, until the heat rises. Throw in destabilizing circumstances to taste. Once the main goal of the revolution is achieved, cool instantly to institutionalize the new order.”

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Themes: Revolution

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“The command to be free is a double bind”

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“Maybe that’s what a marriage is… Some kind of performance… not just a conversation, but a performance.”

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Themes: Marriage

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“Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out But in the realm of ideas, one can become idealistic.”

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“Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the sun, mammal on the hunt, human doing something good.”

Themes: Evolution

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“from the crow language… ‘Caw, caw, caw’ had become an English word - ‘Hawk!’”

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“Humans had made wolves more human, and thus dogs, and in that same time period wolves had made humans more wolfish, by teaching them pack behaviors.”

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“Music was the first human language, and still is the language of animals and birds.”

Themes: Music

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“Very powerful forces are adamantly opposed to creating full employment [because] if enacted would remove ‘wage pressure’ — the fear struck into the hearts of the poor, of anyone who feared becoming poor, almost everyone on Earth.”

Themes: Poverty Fear Control

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“People adhere to ideas that explain and offer psychological compensation for their position in the class system of their time… People thus very often act against their own interests… It happens in all class systems, all cultures in recorded history, since the first agrarian and urban civilizations.”

Themes: Culture Deception

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