Kim Stanley Robinson

An American science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than 20 books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently 2312, a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for any book. 2020’s The Ministry for the Future was chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year. Robinson has worked with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. In 2016 he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction; and in 2017 he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. His latest work of nonfiction, High Sierra: A Love Story, is a “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of his beloved Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping.