Kim Stanley Robinson

American science fiction writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1952 · age 74

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes.

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2024Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign NovelAward2013Nebula Award for Best NovelAward2010“Yes. God makes the world using mathematics, and he has given us minds that can see it. We can discover the laws He used! It is a most beautiful thing to witness and understand!”In their words18 January 2010Strange HorizonsRead the whole statement

2009“We all have seven secret lives.”In their wordsCh. 13, p. 280Read the whole statement

“One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.”In their wordsCh. 13, p. 295Read the whole statement

“Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.”In their wordsCh. 14, p. 329Read the whole statement

“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”In their wordsCh. 15, p. 354Read the whole statement

2005“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position.”In their words14 September 2005As quoted in The GuardianRead the whole statement

2000Locus Award for Best CollectionAward1999Seiun Award for Best Translated Long WorkAward1998Ignotus Award for Best Foreign NovelAward1997Ignotus Award for Best Foreign NovelAwardLocus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAward1994Hugo Award for Best NovelAwardLocus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAwardNebula Award for Best NovelAward1991John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAwardLocus Award for Best NovellaAward1985Locus Award for Best First NovelAward1984World Fantasy Award for Best NovellaAward1952Born23 March 1952

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Kim Stanley Robinson speaking at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair on the social themes of his work

In their own words 4

Kim Stanley Robinson

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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
2009 · Ch. 13, p. 284, Own words
This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything.
2009 · Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he, Own words
You could never teach other people anything that mattered.
2009 · Ch. 20, p. 513-514, Own words

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Awards

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel2024

Nebula Award for Best Novel2013

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2003

Locus Award for Best Collection2000

Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work1999

Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel1998

Premio Gigamesh1998

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel1997

Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel1997

Hugo Award for Best Novel1997

Nebula Award for Best Novel1994

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel1994

Hugo Award for Best Novel1994

BSFA Award for Best Novel1992

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel1991

Locus Award for Best Novella1991

Nebula Award for Best Novella1988

Locus Award for Best First Novel1985

World Fantasy Award for Best Novella1984

About this person

Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."

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