Kim Stanley Robinson

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
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    March 1984
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature 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. Robinson's work was labeled by The Atlantic as "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."

Full Series List in Order

The Mars Trilogy

1 - Red Mars (Feb-1993)
2 - Green Mars (Apr-1994)
3 - Blue Mars (Jun-1996)

Science In The Capital Trilogy

1 - Forty Signs of Rain (Jun-2004)
2 - Fifty Degrees Below (Sep-2005)
3 - Sixty Days and Counting (Mar-2007)

Three Californias

1 - The Wild Shore (Mar-1984)
2 - The Gold Coast (Nov-1988)
3 - Pacific Edge (Nov-1990)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Wild Shore

    Three Californias - 1

    From the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures -- one a...

  • The Memory of Whiteness

    It is the year 3229 AD, and Johannes Wright, Ninth Master of Holywelkin's Orchestra, is about to embark on his first Grand Tour of the Solar System. With him will go friends and enemies, seen and unseen, known and unknown. Within him he carries the s...

  • Icehenge

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    SF titan Kim Stanley Robinson’s breakout novel, now in a Tor Essentials edition with a new introduction by Henry FarrellTor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introd...

  • The Planet on the Table

  • The Gold Coast

    Three Californias - 2

    “Bold, manic, wonderful,” this dystopian sci-fi thriller imagines ecological collapse in an alternative future California (Los Angeles Times).2027: Southern California is a developer’s dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and ...

  • The Blind Geometer

  • Escape from Kathmandu

    Kim Stanley Robinson's Escape From Kathmandu is a light-hearted fantasy tribute to the world of extreme mountain climbing follows the adventures of two American expatriates living in Nepal.Living in the city of Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal are ...

  • A Short, Sharp Shock

    A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in th...

  • Pacific Edge

    Three Californias - 3

    An idealistic young builder fights for love and nature in a utopian society in this conclusion to the Three Californias Trilogy.2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the ma...



  • Remaking History

  • Red Mars

    The Mars Trilogy - 1

    For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that de...

  • Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias

    A collection of science fiction stories about human societies who have returned to a more natural lifestyle in an effort to reverse pollution, by such authors as Ernest Callenbach, Robert Silverberg, and Ursula K. LeGuin...

  • Green Mars

    The Mars Trilogy - 2

    Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earth like planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter C...

  • Blue Mars

    The Mars Trilogy - 3

    The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically transformed from a desert world into one where humans can flourish. But as Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overp...

  • Future Primitive

    Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

    Kim Stanley...

  • Antarctica

    Now, in his latest novel, he takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet -- it is the last pure wilderness on earth. A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to su...

  • The Martians

    Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is one of science fiction’s most honored stories, with Red Mars winning the distinguished Nebula Award, and both Green Mars and Blue Mars honored with the Hugo. Now Robinson returns to the realm he has mad...

  • The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

    Kim Stanley Robinson has been an ongoing force in the Science Fiction genre for over twenty years, with his novels (Year’s of Rice and Salt, Forty Signs of Rain) crossing over to the mainstream, and routinely appearing on the New York Times best se...

  • The Years of Rice and Salt

    With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, The acclaimed storyteller con...



  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2002

    An anthology of Nebula Award winning fiction selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America includes works by Eleanor Arnason, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, Gardner Dozois, Linda Nagata, and Walter Jon Williams, accompanied ...

  • The Capital Code

  • Forty Signs of Rain

    Science In The Capital Trilogy - 1

    When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in...

  • Fifty Degrees Below

    Science In The Capital Trilogy - 2

    Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers -- and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of ...

  • Sixty Days and Counting

    Science In The Capital Trilogy - 3

    By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Was...

  • The Lucky Strike

    Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, this astounding alternate history tale presents a dramatic encounter with destiny wrapped around a simple yet provocative premise: the terrifying questio...

  • Galileo's Dream

    The winner of every major science fiction award, Kim Stanley Robinson is a novelist who looks ahead with optimism even while acknowledging the steep challenges facing our planet and species: a clear-eyed realist who has not forgotten how to dream. Hi...

  • 2312

    The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in thi...

  • Shaman

    Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in SHAMAN, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, ...

  • Aurora

    A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers....



  • Green Earth

    The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change -- updated and abridged into a single novel More than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson began a groundbrea...

  • Oral Argument

    Tor is thrilled to have the opportunity to publish internationally bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson’s first stand-alone short story in decadesThe award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy gives us a glimpse into a very green future through th...

  • Drowned Worlds

    We stand at the beginning of one of the greatest ecological disasters in the time on Man. The world is warming and seas are rising. We may deny it, but we can't hide when the water comes. Already the streets of Miami flood regularly and Mick Jones lo...

  • New York 2140

    New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartme...

  • Red Moon

    RED MOON is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson. It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon. American Fred Fredericks is making his first...

  • The Ministry for the Future

    From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story ...

  • The Tympanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942

    One glorious, horrifying night in the middle of World War II finds a group of musicians fusing into a gestalt consciousness shaped by Beethoven's artistry, a cosmic mind that will redeem all the brutality of war.The Paul Di Filippo Presents series sh...

  • No More Fairy Tales

    A collection of inspiring, funny, dark, mysterious, tragic, romantic, dramatic, upbeat and fantastical short stories. These 23 stories are written by a variety of authors, with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable so...

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Award-Winning Books by Kim Stanley Robinson

2312
2012 Nebula Award -- Novel
Antarctica
1999 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Blue Mars
1997 Hugo Award -- Novel
1997 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Green Mars
1994 Hugo Award -- Novel
1994 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The Martians
2000 Locus Award -- Collection
Pacific Edge
1991 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
Red Mars
1993 Nebula Award -- Novel
A Short, Sharp Shock
1991 Locus Award -- Novella
The Wild Shore
1985 Locus Award -- First Novel
The Years of Rice and Salt
2003 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kim Stanley Robinson has published 39 books.

Kim Stanley Robinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, No More Fairy Tales, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore, was published in March 1984.

Yes. Kim Stanley Robinson has 3 series.
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