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  1. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    Buddhism begins in personal experience. Observation of one's surroundings and one's reactions, and one's thoughts.
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  2. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes.
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  3. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    Judging by the results so far, it had possibly been a bad idea to suggest a scientific approach to political problems, but on most days Frank was still glad they had tried it. Something had to be done. Although choosing which something remained a problem.
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  4. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    It's like being Calvin and watching Hobbes turn back into a stuffed doll.
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  5. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    What was worry, after all, but a kind of fear? It was fear for the future. And in fact the future was bound to bring its share of bad things, there was no avoiding that. So worry was really a hopeless enterprise, in that it could not do anything. It was an anticipation of grief, a nightmare of the future. A type of fear; and she was determined not to be afraid."
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  6. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    I was told that one senior person at NSF finished reading the trilogy and immediately sold his house and moved into a camper in a trailer park. That's taking things too far, probably, but I like the impulse, because we read novels to help create our sense of what the world means, to mentally travel in other people's lives, and to get some laughs. So whether you light out for the territory afterward or not, read on, reader, and may this story help and entertain you. And thanks. Kim Stanley Robinson, February 2015
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  7. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Green Earth

    If you want to write a novel about our world now, you'd better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.
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