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Stan's Kitchen: A Robinson Reader

Kim Stanley Robinson

First published 2020
Publisher NESFA Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Tom Killion
Pages 310+[6]
Price $30.00
ISBN 9781610373401

  • This collection was published by NESFA Press, and also distributed by Subterranean Press.
  • On copyright page:
    • "FIRST EDITION", "February 2020", ISBN
    • "Stan's Kitchen Sink was printed in a signed, limited hardcover edition of 600 copies, of which the first ten were lettered A through J, and the remaining 590 were numbered 1 through 590. This is book [hand-written number]." (Note: despite "... Kitchen Sink" in the limitation statement, the word "Sink" does not appear on the title page or the jacket.)
  • On title page: "Edited by David G. Grubbs" and subtitle "A Robinson Reader".
  • On jacket front flap: $30.00 price and "Dust jacket illustration Isosceles Peak from Dusy Basin (c) 2012 by Tom Killion".
  • Michael Blumlein's introductory essay "Stan's Kitchen" is dated "Sept 24, 2019" (one month before his death.)

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 What's In My Pocket Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
11 Stan's Kitchen Michael Blumlein Essay
19 The Part of Us That Loves Kim Stanley Robinson Novelette
47 "A Story" Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
61 Notes for an Essay on Cecelia Holland Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
71 An Introduction to "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
77 Lem in California Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
83 "Animal Farm" in 1992 Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
89 An Introduction to "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
95 Happy Birthday Ursula Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
99 Delany Considered Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
115 Vinland the Dream Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
127 Crossing Mather Pass Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
129 Invisible Owls Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
131 Tenzing Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
135 The Reds' Lament Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
137 A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
141 Two Years Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
145 Discovering Life Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
153 How to Predict the Future Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
161 What Can't Happen Won't Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
171 Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
181 Dystopia/Utopia Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
187 Enough Is As Good As a Feast [Imagining Alternatives] Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
191 Source of the Peach Blossom Stream Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
193 Six Day Poems by the Widow Kang Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
201 Prometheus Unbound, at Last (And None Too Soon) Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
205 "The Worst Journey in the World" Revisited Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
223 Introduction (In the Sierra: Mountain Writings) Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
227 Somewhat Lost Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
231 Naming Mount Thoreau Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
245 Kistenpass Kim Stanley Robinson Essay
263 Zurich Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
273 Oral Argument Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
279 Seven Shaman Songs Kim Stanley Robinson Poem
289 The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942 Kim Stanley Robinson Short Story
303 Pippilouette's Story Kim Stanley Robinson Poem