Kim Stanley Robinson
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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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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!
As quoted in John Clute, "Scores", in Strange Horizons (18 January 2010)
Science is--or should be--the greenest force of all.
As quoted in "Heroes of the Environment 2008" in Time (24 September 2008)
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position.
As quoted in "Future tense" in The Guardian (14 September 2005)
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Orson Scott CardAlso won Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel
Peter StraubAlso won World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Joe HaldemanAlso won Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel
John ScalziAlso won Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Susanna ClarkeAlso won Locus Award for Best First Novel
Fritz LeiberAlso won Hugo Award for Best NovelAbout this person
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. 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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