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Kim Stanley Robinson
(b.1952)Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major SF award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.
Awards: Nebula (2012), Hugo (1997), BSFA (1992), Campbell (1991) see all
Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Series
Science in the Capital
1. Forty Signs of Rain (2004)
2. Fifty Degrees Below (2005)
3. Sixty Days and Counting (2007)
Green Earth (2015)
1. Forty Signs of Rain (2004)
2. Fifty Degrees Below (2005)
3. Sixty Days and Counting (2007)
Green Earth (2015)
Novels
Icehenge (1984)
The Memory of Whiteness (1985)
A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)
Antarctica (1997)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Galileo's Dream (2009)
2312 (2012)
Shaman (2013)
Aurora (2015)
New York 2140 (2017)
Red Moon (2018)
The Ministry For the Future (2020)
The Memory of Whiteness (1985)
A Short, Sharp Shock (1990)
Antarctica (1997)
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Galileo's Dream (2009)
2312 (2012)
Shaman (2013)
Aurora (2015)
New York 2140 (2017)
Red Moon (2018)
The Ministry For the Future (2020)
Collections
The Planet on the Table (1986)
Escape from Kathmandu (1989)
Remaking History (1991)
Vinland the Dream (2002)
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (2010)
I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)
Metamorphosis (2015) (with Alaya Dawn Johnson)
#cyberpunkNOW and the Dystopian Moment: The London Reader, Volume One (2020) (with others)
Escape from Kathmandu (1989)
Remaking History (1991)
Vinland the Dream (2002)
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (2010)
I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)
Metamorphosis (2015) (with Alaya Dawn Johnson)
#cyberpunkNOW and the Dystopian Moment: The London Reader, Volume One (2020) (with others)
Novellas and Short Stories
A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (1991)
Down and Out in the Year 2000 (1992)
A Martian Romance (1999)
Down and Out in the Year 2000 (1992)
A Martian Romance (1999)
Anthologies edited
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Kim Stanley Robinson recommends
A Different Kind of Tension (2025)
Jonathan Lethem
"Lethem's short stories are surrealisms. Comparisons to the other great surrealists of short fiction would be apt, but he's created his own mode, and naming his influences maybe obscures his particular achievement. They start as ideas, as in 1950s science fiction or European folktales, ideas that are clear, startling, bold, strange, memorable. Then they unfold into character sketches as in the realist tradition, full of heart and soul, pain and hilarity. This fusion of real and surreal is what makes these stories so Lethemesque, and so very good. Take one at a time, like strong medicine, or rare gifts."
When We Were Real (2025)
Daryl Gregory
"Road movie, group cast, all charming. Starts funny and stays that way, even after they fly off a cliff and crash hard into existential angst caused by severe ontological challenges. The soulfulness is hilarious, and vice versa (very important). Is this our America right now, seen with cosmic x-ray vision? Is it a Daryl Gregory novel? Same thing."
Tomorrowing (2024)
Terry Bisson
"Much like Samuel Beckett, Terry Bisson's fiction got more and more compressed as he aged, until it came to these short stories, which are amazing, hilarious, deep. Tomorrowing is one of the greatest story collections in American literature. Read it and see what I mean."
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