Kim Stanley Robinson Books In Order
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The Wild Shore | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gold Coast | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pacific Edge | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mars Trilogy Books
Red Mars | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Mars | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Mars | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mars Collections
Publication Order of Capital Code/Science In The Capital Books
Forty Signs of Rain | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fifty Degrees Below | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sixty Days and Counting | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Icehenge | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Memory of Whiteness | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blind Geometer | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Short, Sharp Shock | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antarctica | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Years of Rice and Salt | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galileo's Dream | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
2312 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shaman | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aurora | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oral Argument | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drowned Worlds | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New York 2140 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Moon | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ministry for the Future | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Planet on the Table | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Escape From Kathmandu | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaking History and Other Stories | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down and Out in the Year 2000 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vinland the Dream and Other Stories | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Novels of Philip K. Dick | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The High Sierra | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Black Air | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Mars (novella; in Asimov's) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mother Goddess of the World (in Asimov's) | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Nebula Awards Books
Nebula Awards 1 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 2 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 3 | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 4 | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 5 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 6 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 7 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 8 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 9 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 10 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 11 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 14 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 15 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 16 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 17 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 19 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 20 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 21 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 22 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 23 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 24 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 26 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 27 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 28 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 29 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 30 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards31 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 33 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 36 (2002) | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 37 (2003) | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 38 (2004) | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 39 (2005) | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 40 (2006) | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 42 (2008) | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 43 (2009) | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 45 (2011) | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 46 (2012) | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 47 (2013) | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 50 (2016) | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 51 (2017) | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 53 (2019) | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Some of the Best from Tor.com Books
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2015 edition | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
The Human Front | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lucky Strike | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underbelly | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Taboos | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Hell | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Life, My Body | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypsy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totalitopia | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Nebula Awards 16 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Universe 13 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Mars | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Earth | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under African Skies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Primitive | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Moons | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Crimes | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'm With the Bears | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kim Stanley Robinson is the award winning author of several science fiction novels; including the novels that make up the “Three Californias” series, “The Mars” trilogy (an award winning series for which he is probably best known for writing), and the “Science in the Capital” series. Robinson has also written dozens of short stories and several other standalone novels. Robinson has won many awards in his career as an author; the awards he has won include: British Science Fiction Association Award, World Fantasy Award, Nebula, Ignotus Award, Seium Award, Hugo, John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and Locus Awards (which he has won six times: 1985, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003). Robinson has been nominated for many others. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois on March 23, 1952.
He obtained his BA in literature from University of California- San Diego, in 1974, and the next year, earned his MA in English from Boston University; Robinson would later go on to get his PhD in English from University of California- San Diego. His doctoral thesis was called “The Novels of Phillip K. Dick”, after his first PhD adviser told him to read the works of Phillip K. Dick, that later got published, a hardcover version was even released. He married an environmental chemist named Lisa Howland Nowell in 1982 and together they have two kids together. He has lived in Switzerland, various parts of California (the place that he spent his childhood). and Washington D. C.
A lot of his stories deal with ideas of ecological and nature issues. In “The Gold Coast” he talks about over development and the drawbacks. The rest of the “Southern California” trilogy explores ideas of nature and technology intersecting, asserting that it is highly important that the two are separate from one another. Sustainability is his biggest themes and the nature of a plausible utopia. Robinson also explores ideas that capitalism is a replaceable system. Robinson’s work features a group of characters that try to preserve, or at times, try to make their environment around them a better place to live in.
‘The Wild Shore” is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Three Californias” trilogy; it is also the first novel that Robinson ever had published. This book is set in 2047 and is set in San Onofre, a small town on the Pacific Coast. The book is something of a coming of age story, as most of the principal characters in the book are young and are faced with a lot of the problems that kids face at their ages. In 1987, two thousand to three thousand neutron bombs were detonated in two thousand of the biggest cities in America. There is no way that America can rebuild, due to the fact that Russia imposed so many rules and Japan watching America’s every move. Living life after a nuclear attack is a day to day struggle to live. Hank Fletcher is a dreamer, someone who wonders what the world was and what it might be again. He tries to imagine what it might be like to remake America and turn it into something worthwhile again. A man named Tom tells people what the world was like before all the bombs were dropped. Books are in high demand and of high trade value, as they are rare.
Fans of this book praised it for its believeable premise that an attack on America involving nuclear missiles being dropped, the novel has great plot, fascinating characters, and the depiction of a realistic future world. Fans of the book also liked that it has some of Robinson’s best writing, including some of the best lines that have ever appeared in a novel that close out the book. Readers liked that Robinson fleshed out his society completely, has interesting characters, and the way the novel is able to combine science fiction with a philosophical bend to it. This book does take some patience on the part of the reader and is not for every reader. Readers who did not like the book said that the story goes bad, and becomes incoherent. Some felt like this book resembled a whodunnit, but it never tells the reader who the killer was. Some readers were disappointed in Robinson’s storytelling in this novel.
‘The Gold Coast” is the second book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Three Californias” trilogy. This book is set in 2027, and features a Southern California that is nothing but freeways, malls, and condos. A young man, Jim McPherson, is a wealthy man’s son, a budding poet, and is lost in a world of great drugs, casual sex, and fast cars. He is brought to a confrontation with his family and everything he believes in when he goes through the underground of industrial terrorism. Jim cannot focus on things for long periods of time, nor can he remember to do things. His dad works in developing high precision munitions.
Fans of this book praised Robinson’s ability to be knowledgeable about something but use it wisely without rubbing the readers’s faces in the fact that he knows about something, and keep the story moving forward. The readers found the book to feature defense industry and over development as something that was alive and had its hold on the characters with an independent will. Readers who did not enjoy this book felt that Robinson takes a long time to find out where he wants to go with the book, the ecological aspect is too strident at times, and when Robinson bashes capitalism he does not have enough evidence to support his claims. They did not like when the book focused on Jim as those scenes are boring and too technical, and some found the characters in the book to be useless, as all they seem to do is party and do drugs for most of the book.
The rights to the “Mars” trilogy were bought, plans to make the novel into a television series on Spike were set in motion. Many people held the rights to the series at one point or another (James Cameron Gale Ann Hurd, and AMC had them), each having their own plans with the stories, before Spike got a hold of them and got J. Michael Straczynski to adapt them for the screen.
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