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(b.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.
Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Series
Three Californias
1. The Wild Shore (1984)
2. The Gold Coast (1988)
3. Pacific Edge (1990)
Three Californias (omnibus) (2020)
1. The Wild Shore (1984)
2. The Gold Coast (1988)
3. Pacific Edge (1990)
Three Californias (omnibus) (2020)
Mars
1. Red Mars (1992)
2. Green Mars (1993)
3. Blue Mars (1996)
The Martians (1999)
The Complete Mars Trilogy (omnibus) (2015)
1. Red Mars (1992)
2. Green Mars (1993)
3. Blue Mars (1996)
The Martians (1999)
The Complete Mars Trilogy (omnibus) (2015)
Science in the Capital
1. Forty Signs of Rain (2003)
2. Fifty Degrees Below (2005)
3. Sixty Days and Counting (2007)
Green Earth (2015)
1. Forty Signs of Rain (2003)
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 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)
Omnibus
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 Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T C Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich and Helen Simpson)
Metamorphosis (2015) (with Alaya Dawn Johnson)
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 Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, T C Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich and Helen Simpson)
Metamorphosis (2015) (with Alaya Dawn Johnson)
Chapbooks
Novellas
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Kim Stanley Robinson
Voyager 5 (1969)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
UniverseX 11 (1981)
Universe 12 (1982)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
Universe 13 (1983)
Universe 14 (1984)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 (1985)
Universe 15 (1985)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 (1987)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994)
Nebula Awards 29 (1995)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
Isaac Asimov's Moons (1997)
Explorers (2000)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
UniverseX 11 (1981)
Universe 12 (1982)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
Universe 13 (1983)
Universe 14 (1984)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 (1985)
Universe 15 (1985)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 (1987)
Full Spectrum 2 (1989)
Nebula Awards 23 (1989)
Future Earths : Under African Skies (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Nebula Awards 28 (1994)
Nebula Awards 29 (1995)
The Way It Wasn't (1996)
Isaac Asimov's Moons (1997)
Explorers (2000)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
Short stories
| Coming Back to Dixieland (1976) | |||
| The Disguise (1977) | |||
| Venice Drowned (1981) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Exploring Fossil Canyon (1982) | |||
| To Leave a Mark (1982) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| Black Air (1983) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) World Fantasy | ||
| The Lucky Strike [short story] (1983) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Stone Eggs (1983) | |||
| Mercurial (1984) | |||
| Ridge Running (1984) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| Green Mars [short story] (1985) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| The Blind Geometer (1986) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards | ||
| Down and Out in the Year 2000 [short story] (1986) | |||
| Escape from Kathmandu [short story] (1986) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Our Town (1986) | |||
| A Transect (1986) | |||
| Mother Goddess of the World (1987) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| Rainbow Bridge (1987) | |||
| The Return from Rainbow Bridge (1987) | |||
| Glacier (1988) | |||
| The Lunatics (1988) | |||
| The Part of Us That Loves (1988) | |||
| Remaking History [short story] (1988) | |||
| Before I Wake (1989) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Kingdom Underground (1989) | |||
| The True Nature of Shangri-La (1989) | |||
| The Translator (1990) | |||
| Zurich (1990) | |||
| A History of the Twentieth Century, With Illustrations (1991) | |||
| Muir on Shasta (1991) | |||
| A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (1991) | |||
| A Short, Sharp Shock [short story] (1991) | Hugo (nominee) | ||
| Vinland the Dream [short story] (1991) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Festival Night (1993) | |||
| Discovering Life (2000) |
Awards
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Kim Stanley Robinson recommends
West of the Sun (1953)
Edgar Pangborn
"Edgar Pangborn was one of the greatest American science fiction writers, who established along with Bradbury, Sturgeon, Miller and Cordwainer Smith a poetic, beautifully human style od science fiction. Pangborn's evocative landscapes and intense emotional situations combine to give all his novels a mysterious and powerful beauty. He was a true artist and bringing his work back into print in this way is a great moment for American Literature."
Flowerdust (1993)
(Divine Endurance, book 2)
Gwyneth Jones
"While 'Flowerdust' is a very exciting action adventure involving drug-running and political turmoil in an exotic, far-future Malaysia, it is also shot through with miracles, giving it a vivid, scary, metaphysical power. Gwyneth Jones is one of the greatest science fiction writers working today"
The Mount (2002)
Carol Emshwiller
"We are all Mounts and so should read this book like an instruction manual that could help save our lives. That it is also a beautiful novel is the usual bonus you get by reading Carol Emshwiller. She aleays writes them that way."
Resurgence (2002)
(Heritage , book 6)
Charles Sheffield
"Charles Sheffield is one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world."
The King's Last Song (2006)
Geoff Ryman
"Another masterpiece by one of the greatest fiction writers of our time."
The Big Bang Symphony (2010)
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
"A beautiful novel about living in that extreme space, vivid and suspenseful."
Codename Prague (2011)
(Scikungfi Trilogy, book 2)
D Harlan Wilson
"This novel is from the wild edge of science fiction, in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch--fast, smart, funny, and full of a scarily plausible vision of just how weird things could get if we take our biological fate into our own hands."
The King's Witch (2011)
Cecelia Holland
"The Crusades, and the charisma of Richard the Lionheart, have never been portrayed so vividly. A truly exciting novel."
Rage of Stars (2012)
(Sigil Trilogy, book 3)
Henry Gee
"Awesome stuff, and a true pleasure to read page by page."
A Country of Ghosts (2014)
Margaret Killjoy
"This gritty evocative novel explores the question of what an anarchist community can do to resist the assaults that are sure to come if any such social formation were to exist. Yet more important still is that this is an exciting and mysterious novel, a story of war and love in some fictional mountainous country with echoes of nineteenth century Latin America, eastern Europe, central Asia; by the time you’re done you feel you’ve gotten a glimpse into a forgotten part of our history that is nevertheless very real."
Yesterday's Kin (2014)
(Yesterday's Kin)
Nancy Kress
"Nancy Kress's one of the best science fiction writers working today."
The Three-body Problem (2014)
(Remembrance of Earth's Past, book 1)
Cixin Liu
"Immense narrative energy, The best kind of science fiction."
Piano Tide (2016)
Kathleen Dean Moore
"Piano Tide joins Ken Kesey’s Sailor Song as one of the great novels of Alaska and its convoluted coast and history."
Wolf Moon (2017)
(Luna, book 2)
Ian McDonald
"Ian McDonald is one of the very best science fiction writers in the world. His novels are fearless, brilliant wise...they illuminate and entertain spectacularly."
The Moon and the Other (2017)
John Kessel
"Brilliant and thought provoking,,,An intense experience. This may be his best book yet."
The Wall (2019)
John Lanchester
"With The Wall, John Lanchester follows his mind-boggling financial essays and his great realist novel Capital with a bold science fiction fable, a vivid, swift, chilling, and ultimately beautiful human story. All his work is of a piece-he wants his readers to see our moment better, and then do something about it."
Perihelion Summer (2019)
Greg Egan
"Egan here doubles down on climate change with his typically rigorous exploration of a cosmic accident’s effect on Earth and all its people. His characters are sharp and funny and their courageous response to the massive challenge they face works as a spur to cause us to think—why couldn’t we do as well with our own great challenge? This is what the best science fiction can do that no other genre can, and we need it now more than ever. Bravo!"
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