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Meeting the Minister for the future, Kim Stanley Robinson

This week The Futurists hosts Brett, Rob and Katie host a guest that NY Times calls “one of the world’s most acclaimed living science fiction writers” – Kim Stanley Robinson. We dive into the Mars Trilogy and interplanetary colonization and exploration, we tackle climate shift and the economics of the world of the future. We get some background on his early career in sci-fi, we delve into KSR’s world building and how real world places influenced story settings, his interest in fields like terraforming, geology and even genetics. This is part 1 of a two part special episode. You’re going to love it, we did!

Meeting the Minister for the future, Kim Stanley Robinson

More about Kim Stanley Robinson from his Wikipedia entry

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 22 novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. 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 AwardThe 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]

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