Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer, born on 23 March 1952 in Waukegan, Illinois, and raised in Orange County, California. He earned a doctorate in literature from the University of California, San Diego, with a thesis on Philip K. Dick. He is best known for the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 1992–1996), which won Hugo and Nebula awards, and for novels such as The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, Aurora, New York 2140 and The Ministry for the Future (2020), a climate novel widely read beyond the genre.
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Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer, born on 23 March 1952 in Waukegan, Illinois, and raised in Orange County, California. He earned a doctorate in literature from the University of California, San Diego, with a thesis on Philip K. Dick. He is best known for the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, 1992–1996), which won Hugo and Nebula awards, and for novels such as The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, Aurora, New York 2140 and The Ministry for the Future (2020), a climate novel widely read beyond the genre.
