The prestigious U.S. weekly review of widespread throughout the world on the occasion and praised the artistic qualities of the writer, that his commitment.
The magazine Time, which is part of media giant AOL Time Warner, comes from back in 1923 and in 2007 had an average circulation of 3.4 million copies, has appointed the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's "Hero of the Environment 2008."
In an article available online journalist Oliver Morton, having introduced the topic saying that environmentalists usually tend to focus more on the past, as if mistrusting the future and progress, speaks of the writer and how his hand is targeted towards utopian vision that gives us a better future in the past. According
Morton Robinson, 56, California, intellectual, activist and staunch supporter of science ("Science should be the greenest of all power") is an accomplished writer of fiction, a genre has always been full of warnings environmental degradation, has chosen not simply describe a gray future, perhaps using it as an allegory, but to use the environment and its complexity as the focal point of what happens in the story, creating their utopia through science and technology effort.
are two sets of Robinson taken into account: the '90s trilogy of Mars (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars - only the first has been translated into Italian under the title The Red Mars), which describes the transformation of the planet in a suitable environment to man and the series "Science in the Capital", composed of three novels Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below and Sixty Days and Counting (published between 2004 and 2007, and unpublished in Italy) where describes a more plausible that the effects of environmental degradation, blending them with the power games involved, but also the counter-biological, technological and especially policies to address them.
Morton concludes the analysis of science fiction as saying Robinson is not limited to things to come, but deals with things as they are now and projected into a future built to give them the maximum effect. The realism with which these environmental changes as well as human labor to produce them is critical to his narrative.
