Icehenge

Name: Icehenge
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN: 9781541488748

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Danny Campbell, Carla Mercer-Meyer, Kevin T. Collins

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/13/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth's Stonehenge—but ten times the size, standing alone at the farthest reaches of the Solar System. What is it? Who came there to build it?

The secret lies, perhaps, in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries.

About Kim Stanley Robinson

New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. A native Californian, he is the author of the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning Mars trilogy, as well as the 2016 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. This award is in recognition of Mr. Robinson's body of work, which includes more than fifteen novels-including his groundbreaking Mars novels-and over forty short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

This was a very pleasant surprise. Not only had I not known that Kim Stanley Robinson had written three rather good novellas that pretty much outline the immense worldbuilding of Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, it also spans four hundred years, most of the major issues including the revolution......more

Goodreads review by Adam

Almost a prequel to KSR's amazing Mars Trilogy. Three novellas about a mutiny, a planned interstellar journey, a strange monument left behind on Pluto and their consequences for historians of Mars. I liked Emma Weil's tampering with designs for a bacterial life support system, that's the sort of thi......more