Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia is a science fiction novel published in 1998 by Mike Resnick. It is a series of parables about one man's attempt to preserve...
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Kirinyaga may refer to: Kirinyaga (novel), by Mike Resnick "Kirinyaga" (short story), a 1988 short story by Mike Resnick Kirinyaga Central Constituency...
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previously unpublished stories) Vacuum Diagrams (1997) by Stephen Baxter Kirinyaga (1998) by Mike Resnick Rainbow Mars (1999) by Larry Niven From the Dust...
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Mike Resnick (section Tales of Kirinyaga)
Resnick was nominated for 37 Hugo Awards and won five times. 1989: "Kirinyaga" for Best Short Story 1991: "The Manamouki" for Best Novelette 1995: "Seven...
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Ray Bradbury (section First novel)
horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles...
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David Brin (redirect from Existence (novel))
fiction author. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner...
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stories set on Kirinyaga, an artificial utopian habitat based on the culture of the Kikuyu people. The original ten stories appeared as Kirinyaga in 1998 and...
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Samantha Mills (author) (section Novels)
numerous awards for her short story "Rabbit Test," praise for her debut novel, and her other short stories have been longlisted for several science fiction...
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Alix E. Harrow (section Novels)
Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 won a Hugo Award. Her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was widely acclaimed by mainstream...
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Joseph Thomson (explorer) (section Novel)
24 March 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009. John Temple and Allan Walker Kirinyaga. A Mount Kenya Anthology (Nairobi : The Mountain Club of Kenya, c. 1975)...
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Octavia E. Butler (section Novels)
Have Said..." (memoir, 1998) "Paraclete" (novel, 2001) "Spiritus" (novel, 2001) "Parable of the Trickster" (novel, 1990s-2000s) "To the Victor" (Story, 1965...
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Connie Willis (section Novels)
works—more major SF awards than any other writer—most recently the "Best Novel" Hugo and Nebula Awards for Blackout/All Clear (2010). She was inducted...
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best known for his novel The Forever War (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works...
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Frederik Pohl (redirect from Jem (novel))
published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and...
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John Varley (author) (section Novels)
Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. Varley has written several novels (his first attempt, Gas Giant, was, he admits, "pretty bad") and numerous...
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more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union...
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Maureen F. McHugh (section Novels)
Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for...
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slope of Mount Kenya located in the Kirinyaga District, Central Province, of Kenya. Part of Haron Wachira's 1999 novel Waiting for Darkness is set in Thumaita...
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blessings, and mete out punishment. When he comes, Ngai rests on Mount Kenya (Kīrīnyaga) and Kilimambogo (kĩrĩma kĩa njahĩ). Thunder is interpreted to be the...
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Michael Swanwick (section Novels)
were nominees for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1981. His first novel was In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a more...
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science fiction, and it was his early childhood exposure to the juvenile novels of Robert A. Heinlein that later influenced him to become a writer. He attended...
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highly regarded material, such as "Lost Boys" by Orson Scott Card, and Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick. When Omni rejected George R.R. Martin's "Monkey Treatment"...
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Terry Bisson (section Novels)
issue. Bisson's first novel was Wyrldmaker, a science fiction novel influenced by James Blish's The Seedling Stars. His next novel was Talking Man (1986)...
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his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym. It was the editor of that novel, Lester del Rey, who first demanded for him to...
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Suzy McKee Charnas (section Novels)
the initiation of her writing career, as it was one of the first feminist novels she had encountered. Despite this, she did not intend to write feminist...
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Geoffrey A. Landis (section Novels)
onto Mars" (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/Aug 2002). His first novel, Mars Crossing, was published by Tor Books in 2000, winning a Locus Award...
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object. The Agikuyu, who inhabit the slopes of Mt. Kenya, call it Kĩrĩma Kĩrĩnyaga (literally 'the mountain with brightness') in Kikuyu, while the Embu call...
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1988 Carol Emshwiller: The Circular Library of Stones 1989 Mike Resnick: Kirinyaga 1990 Bruce Sterling: Dori Bangs 1991 Terry Bisson: Bears Discover Fire...
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also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, novella, and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for...
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