Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia

1998 Resnick, Mike [Michael Diamond] (1942-2020). Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia. New York: Ballantine. 295 pp. Stories originally published as “Kirinyaga.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 75.5 (November 1988): 6-8, 10-12, 14-26; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 148-63 with an editor’s note on 147; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 716-32; “For I Have Touched the Sky.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 77.6 (December 1989): 135-59. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), 57-77 with an editor’s note on 56; and in Future Earths: Under African Skies. Ed. Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-44; “Bwana.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.1 (152) (January 1990): 134-76; “The Manamouki.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.7 (158) (July 1990): 16-20, 22-25, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-53; rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 3-42; “One Perfect Morning, With Jackels.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 130-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 520-26; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 97-107 with a note on 97-98; “Song of a Dry River.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 16.3 (183) (March 1992): 56-62, 65-76. Rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 81-106; “The Lotus and the Spear.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 16.9 (18) (August 1992): 16-25, 28-30, 32-35; “A Little Knowledge.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.4 & 5 (214 & 215) (April 1994): 92-117; “When the Old Gods Die.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 68-89; and “The Land of Nod.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.6 (246) (June 1996): 10-16, 18-24, 26-35. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 330-49. Merril, MoU-St, PSt

A collection of connected stories about an attempt to create a Kikuyu eutopia on a terraformed world known as Kirinyaga. The novel begins in a future Kenya where the animal herds are no more, only crops bound for Europe are grown, and polluted cities encroached on the sacred mountain Kirinyaga. An attempt is made to impose a single, unchangeable vision. A companion volume is 2008 Resnick, Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia.