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Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson

BOOK: Icehenge

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“What will you do?” Jones asked.

I shook my head. “I don't know. I've never thought of it. MaybeâI'll go back to Terra. See my father. I don't know!â¦ I don't know anything.”

Jones's bass chuckle rumbled in the vacuum's silence. “That's probably as it should be.” He put his arm around my shoulders, steered me around again. We began walking toward the landing vehicles, going back to the others, going back. Jones shook his head, spoke in a sort of singsong: “We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”

By Kim Stanley Robinson

Antarctica

The Blind Geometer

Blue Mars

Escape from Kathmandu

Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
(Editor)

The Gold Coast

Green Mars

Icehenge

Pacific Edge

The Planet on the Table

Red Mars

Remaking History

A Short, Sharp Shock

The Wild Shore

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

ICEHENGE

“Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” copyright Â© 1923 and renewed 1951 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted from
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Parts of this novel have appeared in substantially different form under the titles:

“To Leave a Mark,” copyright Â© 1982 by The Mercury Press. Published in the November 1982 issue of
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“On the North Pole of Pluto,” copyright Â© 1980 by Damon Knight. Published in
Orbit 21.

An Orb Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

Icehenge / Kim Stanley Robinson. â 1st Orb ed.

p. cm.