Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has nowsettled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMESPraise for the Science in the Capital series:‘The BRAVE NEW WORLD of global warming … A narrative that is rich in closely observed characters and a wonderfully vivid sense of place … depicts a society sleep-walking towards the abyss’GUARDIAN‘A funny, convincing, intelligent book’INDEPENDENT‘Finely written and persuasively paints what may be – if climate change happens the way so many scientists fear’SFX

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has nowsettled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMESPraise for the Science in the Capital series:‘The BRAVE NEW WORLD of global warming … A narrative that is rich in closely observed characters and a wonderfully vivid sense of place … depicts a society sleep-walking towards the abyss’GUARDIAN‘A funny, convincing, intelligent book’INDEPENDENT‘Finely written and persuasively paints what may be – if climate change happens the way so many scientists fear’SFX

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has nowsettled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMESPraise for the Science in the Capital series:‘The BRAVE NEW WORLD of global warming … A narrative that is rich in closely observed characters and a wonderfully vivid sense of place … depicts a society sleep-walking towards the abyss’GUARDIAN‘A funny, convincing, intelligent book’INDEPENDENT‘Finely written and persuasively paints what may be – if climate change happens the way so many scientists fear’SFX