Kim Stanley Robinson: “Well, I'm a science fiction writer, and so what I mean by that is I like to set my stories in the future because it makes for interesting stories.

If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Best known for the Mars trilogy, Robinson ...

Reading Robinson — whether his books are set on Mars or in the future or 30,000 years in the past — is a pure delight. He has a genre writer’s talent for plot and a literary author’s taste ...

"Shaman" is also similar to Robinson's earlier science fiction work. His book " 2312 " (Orbit, 2012) explores what the solar system might be like 300 years in the future.

But while Robinson anticipates that even the best-case scenarios for humanity's future will have to emerge from chaos and dark days ahead, his books never wallow in post-apocalyptic dystopias ...

Kim Stanley Robinson writes science fiction in Davis, California. His next novel will be called The Ministry for the Future, out in October from Orbit Books.

Kim Stanley Robinson: I began with the idea of the three. I grew up in Orange County, and I went to college at UC–San Diego.

a character discovers in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2015 book " Aurora." The science fiction master's interstellar journey begins and ends at sea, and is suffused throughout with awe at its beauty and ...

Orbit: 576 pp., $25.99 As the author of the “Mars” trilogy, among other novels, Kim Stanley Robinson has established a superlative reputation for science fictional extrapolation.

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON: Well, I’m into it for sure, but I would say that actually science fiction is an urban literature, and a literature of ideas, and hasn’t been good on what I would call ...

In Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora," humans journey in a multigenerational starship to a moon orbiting one of its planets, 11.9 light-years away.

And then there’s Kim Stanley Robinson: family man, High Sierras pilgrim, ex- Orange County homeboy and prolific author of several of the most influential science fiction works of the last 25 years.