Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science-fiction writer, born in 1952, widely regarded as the pre-eminent novelist of climate and ecology working in the genre.
Trained as a scholar - he holds a doctorate in English, with a dissertation on Philip K. Dick - he has spent his career using science fiction to think seriously about sustainability, politics and the human future, his stories typically driven by scientists and communities rather than lone heroes. He lives in Davis, California, in a cohousing community, and is a devoted backpacker whose love of the Sierra Nevada runs through his work.
His landmark achievement is the Mars trilogy - Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars - a vast, detailed imagining of the terraforming and settlement of the red planet across two centuries, which won him the Nebula and back-to-back Hugo Awards. He has returned again and again to questions of environment and economy, in the far-future 2312, the flooded New York of New York 2140, and, most influentially, The Ministry for the Future, a near-future novel about confronting the climate crisis.
Rigorous, humane and quietly radical, he writes fiction that treats the survival of the planet as the great story of our time.
