Rarely dealing with the transitional phase toward a better and different society, speculative fiction of this type instead explores the final stages of a utopian experiment. The environmental, economic, and social themes in Robinson's oeuvre stand in marked contrast to the right-libertarian science fiction prevalent in much of the genre (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples). The Mars Trilogy. Share Kim Stanley Robinson quotations about universe, slaves and dreams. In 1982 Robinson earned a PhD in English from UC San Diego. Author of eleven novels and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Kim Stanley Robinson would like to say yes. His work has been translated into 24 languages. A native Californian, Robinson traveled and worked in different parts of the world (including Washington, DC and some time in Switzerland with his wife, Lisa, an environmental chemist). Kim Stanley Robinson is an American socialist writer of science fiction. Elisabeth Sherwin's interview with Kim Stanley Robinson can be found in "Robinson completes Mars trilogy, turns to Antarctica" the January 21, 1996, PRINTED MATTER column. "[25], CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, reject the growth-oriented basis of capitalism, John W. 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Robinson captures the joy of scientists as they work at something they care about. Robinson's work often explores alternatives to modern capitalism. But when we meet for lunch in his Californian hometown, at times he struggles to maintain his cool. Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, The Years of Rice and Salt, takes a look at our last 600 years, with the added twist that the Black Death has wiped out 99% of the European population.Into that gap step the Chinese, the Islamic nations, the Indians, and the Native Americans. Robinson's work often features scientists as heroes. The Ministry is an exception to this tendency. ancianita (20,703 posts) Kim Stanley Robinson's chapter on Enoughonomics. He graduated with a degree in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and then went on to do his masters in English at Boston University. In particular, his Martian Constitution draws upon social democratic ideals explicitly emphasizing a community-participation element in political and economic life.[15]. ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt. Related to Robinson's focus on the environment is his themes of the imminent catastrophe of global warming and the need to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the present day. Yes, of course you treat your wife as the ground under your feet!” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt. Kim Stanley Robinson is, uncharacteristically, at a loss. Robinson's work has been labeled by The Atlantic as "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." [18] Climate change is also the focus of his Science in the Capital series. Worker ownership and cooperatives figure prominently in Green Mars and Blue Mars as replacements for traditional corporations. At times, Robinson was a stay-at-home dad. Robinson is obviously very interested in how history happens, and The Years of Rice and Salt is the perfect forum. [6] He now lives in Davis, California in a cohousing community. Stanley Sticks Robinson, known for his time playing college basketball for the UConn Huskies between 2006 and 2010. For me a very special other world was described in Ursula K. Le Guin’s great novel T he Left Hand of Darkness, which is soon to be the centerpiece of a Library of America volume collecting all her “Hainish” novels and stories. It will talk about the novels: “Red Mars”, “Forty Signs of Rain”, and “Icehenge”. Robinson has lived in Washington, D.C., California, and during some of the 1980s, in Switzerland. Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He married Lisa Howland Nowell in 1982. He and his wife later became parents to two sons. [19] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on April 22, 2016 (M.P.C. Robinson's works often portray the worlds of tomorrow in a manner similar to the mythologized American Western frontier, showing a sentimental affection for the freedom and wildness of the frontier. [4] In 1975, he earned an M.A. Environmental fiction writers; American alternate history writers He moved to Southern California as a child. Robinson's scientists often emerge as the best people to direct public policy on important environmental and technological questions, of which politicians are often ignorant. In 2010, Robinson was drafted by the Orlando Magic as the 59th overall pick. The Orange County trilogy explores similar arrangements; Pacific Edge includes the idea of attacking the legal framework behind corporate domination to promote social egalitarianism. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002. reviewed by Martin Empson. According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers.". Stanley Sticks Robinson Wiki – Biography. 58 likes. Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. "[2], Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois. [7] In 2010, he was the guest of honor at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Melbourne. His 2012 novel 2312 explores the detrimental, long-term effects of climate change, which include food shortages, global instability, mass extinction, and 7-metre (23 ft) sea level rise that has drowned many major coastal cities. in English from Boston University. Red Mars; Green Mars; Blue Mars. Robinson explores ten periods in this alternate history with earthy, pragmatic Bardash, impetuous, vengeful Kyu, and quietly intellectual I-Li undergoing many reincarnations: orphaned Indian girl, Sufi mystic, African eunuch, Sultan’s wife, Chinese admiral, dourly brilliant alchemist, feminist poet, village midwife, glassblower, theologian, etc. He and his wife later became parents to two sons. His work is often labeled as literary science fiction. Robinson has been described as anti-capitalist, and his work often portrays a form of frontier capitalism that promotes egalitarian ideals that closely resemble socialist systems, but faced with a capitalism that is maintained by entrenched hegemonic corporations. During this time, he worked as a bookseller for Orpheus Books. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, San Diego. [8] In April 2011, Robinson presented at the second annual Rethinking Capitalism conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Linked Data Service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. Usually the term would be used by a state, or by people backing the status quo. tags: utopia. Forty Signs of Rain has an entirely ecological thrust, taking global warming for its principal subject. [13] In the Mars trilogy, it is argued that capitalism is an outgrowth of feudalism, which could be replaced in the future by a more democratic economic system. Kim Stanley Robinson: It would be really good if ecological and permaculture principles were taught in schools as a basic part of the science curriculum and one's general education. His work has been translated into 25 languages. In 1978 Robinson moved to Davis, California, to take a break from his graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). In 2009, Robinson was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop. Sci-fi Author Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us There Robinson on his new book The Ministry for the Future , a plausible, chaotic, and hopeful novel about how the climate crisis could play out By [17], Robinson and his wife have two sons. As a science fiction writer, he is famed for dreaming up utopian futures. He married Lisa Howland Nowell in 1982. Jameson described Dick to Robinson as "the greatest living American writer". His work has been translated into 24 languages. His work has been described as "humanist science fiction" and "literary science fiction". [14], Robinson's writing also reflects an interest in economic models which reject the growth-oriented basis of capitalism: Robert Markley has identified the work of Murray Bookchin as an influence on his thinking, as well as steady-state economics. He has been described as "one of America's best-selling […] left-wing novelists" and his work has been called "probably the most successful attempt to reach a mass audience with an anti-capitalist utopian vision since Ursula K. Le Guin's 1974 novel, The Dispossessed".[16]. [1] In his 2017 novel New York 2140 Robinson explores the themes of climate change and global warming, setting the novel in the year 2140 when the New York City he imagines is beset by a 50-foot (15 m) sea level rise that submerges half of the city. Since December 2017, sparked by chit-chat raves at a party, I’ve read 10 long novels and a hefty story collection by science fiction stalwart Kim Stanley Robinson: in order, 2312, Shaman (set in 30,000 B.C. [14], Robinson's work often portrays characters struggling to preserve and enhance the world around them in an environment characterized by individualism and entrepreneurialism, often facing the political and economic authoritarianism of corporate power acting in this environment. in literature from the University of California, San Diego. Colonists debate whether or not the barren Martian landscape has a similar ecological or spiritual value when compared with a living ecosphere like Earth's. [2] His works have made reference to real-world examples of economic organisation which have been cited as examples of alternatives to conventional capitalist structures, such as the Mondragon Corporation and the Kerala model. Three novels by Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora (Orbit, 2015) Shaman (Orbit, 2013) New York 2140 (Orbit, 2017). He and Nicole Blackman both attended Boston University (Robinson received his Master's degree in English at BU in 1975). Robinson began publishing novels in 1984. [10], Robinson was appointed as a Muir Environmental Fellow in 2011 by John Muir College at UC San Diego. He also taught freshman composition and other courses at University of California, Davis.[5]. 99892). 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