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Kim Stanley Robinson KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction writers alive today. He has been writing since 1975 but is best known for his 'Mars Trilogy' that started with Red Mars in 1992, which won the 1993 Nebula Award for best novel, continued with Green Mars (1993), which won the 1994 Hugo Award for best novel and concluded with Blue Mars (1995) that also won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1996. He is also well known for his 'Orange Country Trilogy' (also known as Three California's) which comprises of The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific Edge (1990) with Pacific Edge winning the Campbell Memorial Award. Antarctica (1998) dealt with many of the ecological issues surrounding Antarctica. The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) was an ambitious epic imagining a world where the Plague wiped out 95% of the population of Europe, leaving the East to become the dominate force in the world. His latest book, Fifty Degrees Below (2005) is the second part of a trio of books under the title 'The Capital Code', which tackle the issues of global warming, science and politics. He also has a story in the Washington Science Fiction Association's new anthology, Future Washington (2004). |
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