The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
born 1952 United States
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 23 March 1952) is a science fiction novelist most famous for his Mars trilogy.
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Also known as: Robinson, Kim Stanley
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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can’t grasp the current situation.
Red Mars (1992)
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
Green Mars (1993)
Galileo's Dream (2009)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Red Mars (1992)
A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present.
Blue Mars (1996)
Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.
Blue Mars (1996)
Blue Mars (1996)
One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.
Green Mars (1993)
In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.
Red Mars (1992)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.
Green Mars (1993)
Every generation is its own secret society.
Green Mars (1993)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.
Blue Mars (1996)
Very little detective work, he was noticing, could be accomplished before a crime occurred.
Red Mars (1992)
Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?
Blue Mars (1996)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kim Stanley Robinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.