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Robinson imagines the solar system as a lived political ecology rather than merely a backdrop for exploration.
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Kim Stanley Robinson2012 selection · Science fiction & fantasy
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Human civilization has spread throughout the solar system, reshaping planets and hollowing asteroids into moving habitats. After her grandmother's death, artist Swan Er Hong is drawn into an investigation of artificial intelligence, political sabotage, and Earth's unfinished ecological recovery.
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You enjoy panoramic hard science fiction filled with habitats, systems, and competing futures.
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Space colonizationClimate repairArtificial intelligencePolitical systems
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