Red mars trilogy5/9/2023 The gardener is on board, but he’ll need permission from the community council for a one-time SedgeMaster application. The only way to really kill the plant, he says, is with injudicious applications of RoundUp or a purpose-built herbicide called SedgeMaster-a name Robinson says with a delighted evil-villain inflection-but the garden, at the heart of the 1970s experiment in residential communitarianism near Davis, California where Robinson lives, is organic. “If you weed it, it just comes back.” He didn’t know that when he started weeding. Yet here we are, standing at the edge of his plot in a community garden, and it’s bare except for some scrubby, dying shrubs and what looks like sparse, thick-bladed grass. As one of the solar system's pre-eminent writers of climate change-driven, politically astute science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson wouldn’t be anyone’s prime suspect for a crime against nature.
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