false 6391377 3 The winner of every major science fiction award, Kim Stanley Robinson is a novelist who looks ahead with optimism even while acknowledging the steep challenges facing our planet and species: a clear-eyed realist who has not forgotten how to dream. His new novel offers his most audacious dream yet. At the heart of a brilliant narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is one man, the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei.<br><br>To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it.<br><br>Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time. And it is here that Robinson is at his most brilliant, showing Galileo in all his contradictions and complexity. Robinson's Galileo is a tour de force of imaginative and historical empathy: the shining center around which the novel revolves.   <br><br>From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, from the canals of Venice to frozen, mysterious Europa, Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future—in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time.  <br>  6579805 book 6 8 2009 Galileo's Dream total:2|5:1|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:0| 2 8 71 1 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 07:50:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 07:50:52 -0800 2009 Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson in the Guardian]]> 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 13:18:41 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 13:18:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 14:07:54 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 14:07:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 22 17:49:57 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 17:50:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 19 10:52:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 10:52:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 17 20:28:46 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 20:28:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 17 16:47:23 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 16:47:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 16 14:47:51 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:47:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 19:43:54 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:43:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 18:50:06 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 18:50:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 01:04:19 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 01:04:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 10:54:09 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 10:54:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 05:12:01 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 05:12:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 22:48:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 22:48:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 18:47:52 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 18:47:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 17:27:06 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 17:27:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 12:09:37 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 12:09:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 11:25:21 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:25:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 11:20:24 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:20:24 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 10:37:16 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 10:37:16 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6605223