Carlos NCT is a friendly and up-and-coming illustrator from Spain, who has taken his love of KSR’s Mars trilogy and applied it to his digital paintings. He has produced several pieces over the years, and went at it again recently:
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
(you can click for bigness)
The three images above were actually part of a project to create mock covers for a fictional edition of the Mars trilogy (in Spanish). The project actually included much more material, such as bookmarks and pencil sketches. See also these “faces” drawings:
His other Mars-related work exhibits the same excellent use of colours and landscapes:
You can find more on the covers project, more Mars-related art and more artwork in general on Carlos’ blog here and on his portfolio here.
KSR.info has already reached its first birthday! Bring out the kava!
KSRi hopes to continue nurturing appreciation for Kim Stanley Robinson’s works and fuel related discussions for many terrestrial revolutions around the sun to come…
Participants were Mario Biagioli, history professor and scientifc revolutions expert; Sheldon Brown, visual artist; Brian Keating, astrophysicist; and Kim Stanley Robinson.
DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT:
In his recent book, Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson creates a portrait of Galileo’s life in which he combines historic research with science fiction tropes to show the impact and challenges of paradigm shifts and their very human origins. One of the sources for this work is the research of Mario Biagioli, who will discuss the importance of Robinson’s approach to historians of science and interrelationships between science studies and science fiction. Additionally, UCSD Professor of Physics Brian Keating will describe his observations of the early universe made with a version of Galileo’s refractor telescope, which is sensitive to radio-waves, instead of visible light. This telescope located in Antarctica, has made ultra-sensitive images of the afterglow of the Big Bang. He will show images of the early universe as well as data from observations of Jupiter made with a new UCSD telescope, and will discuss techniques to peer deeper into the universe, standing on Galileo’s shoulders. All will be framed by films of high resolution images produced by Sheldon Brown of the four Jovian moons discovered by Galileo some 400 years ago. This event is organized by Don Wayne, Provost of Revelle College. Co-Sponsored by: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), The Council of Provosts, Department of Literature, Division of Arts and Humanities, Division of Physical Sciences, Revelle College.
The recorded panel has been posted online, at Calit2 and at YouTube and lasts for 2h 10min. Here it is below for your enjoyment:
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Galileo’s Dream has been nominated for the 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, for best science fiction novel! The full list of the nominees is:
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (Talese)
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Pyr)
The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey)
Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (Ballantine Spectra)
WWW: Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Gollancz)
The Caryatids, Bruce Sterling (Del Rey)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
