Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer.
He has written nineteen books and many short stories, but his Mars trilogy is his most well-known.
His work has been translated into 24 languages.
Many of his books and stories have ecological, socioeconomic, and political themes, with scientists as heroes.
Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award.
"The gold-standard of realistic, and strongly literary, science-fiction writing," Robinson's book has been praised by The Atlantic as "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." Robinson is "generally regarded as one of the top living science fiction writers" in a New York Times column.
Early life and education
Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois. As a child, he moved to Southern California.
He received a B.A. in 1974. Literature from the University of California, San Diego. He received an M.A. degree in 1975. Boston University's English professor has earned a degree in English. Robinson took a break from his graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, in 1978. He began working as a bookeller for Orpheus Books during this period. At University of California, Davis, he also taught freshman composition and other courses.
Robinson received a PhD in English from UC San Diego in 1982. Fredric Jameson, a literary scholar and Marxist scholar who told Robinson to read Philip K. Dick's works, was his first PhD advisor. Dick to Robinson was described by Jameson as the "most living American writer." The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Robinson's doctoral thesis, was published in 1984, and UMI Research Press released a hardcover version.
Personal life
Robinson and his wife have two sons. Robinson has lived in Washington, D.C., California, as well as Switzerland in the 1980s. Robinson, at times, was a stay-at-home dad. He then moved to Davis, California, in a cohousing neighborhood.
Robinson has characterized himself as a lifelong backpacker with the Sierra Nevada as his home base and a major influence on how he sees the world.
Robinson identifies himself as a democratic socialist, and he claims to have signed up as a Dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America in February 2019. He has also stated that libertarianism has never "made" any sense to him, and that it does not appear as a policy.
Career
In 2009, Robinson was an instructor at the Clarion Workshop. In 2010, he was the guest of honor at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Melbourne. In April 2011, Robinson presented at the second annual Rethinking Capitalism conference, held at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among other points made, his talk addressed the cyclical nature of capitalism.
Robinson was appointed as a Muir Environmental Fellow in 2011 by John Muir College at UC San Diego.