Icehenge
First edition of Icehenge, published by Ace Books as a Mass Market paperback, with cover art by Mark Weber
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| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
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| Cover artist | Mark Weber |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
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Publication date
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1984 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 262 |
| ISBN | 0-441-35854-3 |
| OCLC | 11191345 |
Icehenge is a science fiction novel by American author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 1984.
Though it was published almost ten years before Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and takes place in a different version of the future, Icehenge contains elements which also appear in the Mars series: extreme human longevity, Martian political revolution, historical revisionism, and shifts between primary characters are all present.
Plot
Icehenge is set in three distinct time periods. The story shifts from a failed Martian political revolution of 2248, to an expedition to explore a mysterious monument on the north pole of Pluto three centuries later, and ultimately to a space station orbiting Saturn, home to a reclusive and wealthy woman who may hold the key to solving a mystery spanning centuries.
Development history
The first part of this novel was originally published as the novella To Leave a Mark in the November 1982 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'.[1]
The third part of Icehenge was originally published as the novella On the North Pole of Pluto in 1980 in the anthology Orbit 18 edited by Damon Knight.[2] Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in the spring of 1977.[3] Views of Saturn from the space station inhabited by the character Caroline Holmes in this section were inspired by images of Saturn taken during the Voyager flybys.[4]
Publication history
- 1984, United States, Ace Books ISBN 0-441-35854-3, Pub date 1984, paperback
- 1985, United Kingdom, Futura Orbit ISBN 0-7088-8166-1, Pub date December 1985, paperback
- 1986, United Kingdom, MacDonald ISBN 0-356-12402-9, Pub date October 1986, hardback
- 1986, France, Denoël ISBN 2-207-30425-6, Pub date September 1986, paperback
- 1986, Italy, Editrice Nord ISBN 88-429-0171-7, Pub date 1986, paperback
- 1987, West Germany, Bastei-Lübbe ISBN 3-404-24092-8, Pub date 1987, paperback
- 1990, United States, Tor Books ISBN 0-8125-0267-1, Pub date September 1990, paperback
- 1997, United Kingdom, Voyager ISBN 0-00-648255-4, Pub date 15 September 1997, paperback
- 1997, Croatia, Zagrebačka naklada ISBN 953-6234-26-2, Pub date 1997, paperback
- 1997, Bulgaria, Лира Принт ISBN 954-8610-18-3, Pub date 1997, paperback
- 1998, United States, Tor Orb ISBN 0-312-86609-7, Pub date July 1998, paperback
- 2001, People's Republic of China, 漓江出版社 ISBN 7-5407-2610-5, Pub date 2001, paperback
- 2003, France, Gallimard ISBN 2-07-031304-2, Pub date December 2003, paperback
- 2004, Spain, Minotauro ISBN 84-450-7495-4, Pub date 9 March 2004, paperback
- 2009, United Kingdom, Voyager ISBN 978-0-00-733674-6, Pub date 1 August 2009, paperback
References
External links
- The work of disenchantment never ends: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Icehenge by Jo Walton
- Icehenge title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
