Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of 19 previous books, including the best-selling Mars trilogy and the critically-acclaimed “Forty Signs of Rain,” “Fifty Degrees Below,” “Sixty Days and Counting,” “The Years of Rice and Salt,” and “Antarctica.” In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation’s Artists in the Backcountry program. He was a contributor, along with a group of friends, to the Mono Lakes Association’s “Naming Mt. Thoreau,” about a climb you’ll want to take with them.