Review: Fifty Degrees Below, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson ought to be the most important novelist in the world, his ideas debated in the corridors of power, his books enjoyed and discussed by readers everywhere.

Boldly inventive, he has made a career out of exploring Big Ideas without ever forgetting a novelist's chief obligation - to tell an entertaining and engaging story, with characters a reader can care about.

(Cross-posted to my journal, my website and elsewhere.)

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