Kim Stanley Robinson | |
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![]() Robinson in 2017 | |
Born | Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. | March 23, 1952
Occupation | Writer |
Education | University of California, San Diego (BA, PhD) Boston University (MA) |
Genre | Science fiction |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The Novels of Philip K. Dick (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald Wesling |
Other advisors | Frederic Jameson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English and American literature |
Sub-discipline | Science fiction |
Institutions | |
Notable works | Mars trilogy |
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes 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. The Atlantic has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing."[1] According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."[2]