Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 is an insanely ambitious novel of life three hundreds years hence, set in a solar system where the Earth continues to limp along, half-drowned, terrified, precarious -- and only one of many inhabited places.

The latest episode of the always-excellent Agony Column podcast features an interview with one of science fiction's greatest living writers, Kim Stanley Robinson, discussing his latest novel 2312, a mammoth, epic story of a future built upon realistic and attainable space exploration — a kind of meditation on life within lightspeed, which is nevertheless extremely personal and close-felt and on human scale. — Read the rest

The next installment of the always-awesome SF-in-SF reading series features two exceptional writers: Kim Stanley Robinson and Ceclia Holland (check out previous mentions of Robinson here). It's on Sat, Nov 12, doors open at 6PM, event starts at 7, and, as always, the authors will be interviewed by the estimable Terry Bisson. — Read the rest

Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Bisson and Gary Phillips will appear together in on Oct 13 at the Counterpulse space in LA to talk about revolution, politics and science fiction — sounds like a fantastic event! (Thanks, Shael, via Submitterator! — Read the rest

Zack sez, "SF writer and environmentalist Kim Stanley Robinson did this long interview last year while he was at Duke University — it's finally online, and it is absolutely fascinating." I just spent a few days with Stan at the WorldCon in Melbourne and was reminded of just how interesting and clever he is. — Read the rest

San Francisco-based PM Press were kind enough to send me a couple of their lovely little "Outspoken Authors" chapbooks, including The Lucky Strike, a volume by and about the science fiction great Kim Stanley Robinson.

The "Outspoken Authors" format is a good one: a novella, followed by an explanatory essay, followed by an interview with the author. — Read the rest

I thought you might be interested in this video from a recent Kim Stanley Robinson talk in which he describes life in the present as a science fiction novel we all collaborate on. This is an excerpt from a pair of talks he gave at the Duke in January; the entirety of the other talk is available here. — Read the rest

Here's the Guardian's Alison Flood's detailed look at Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Galileo's Dream, a fictionalized biography of Galileo that features time-travel.

What he came up with was three different temporal dimensions – the first moving very fast, at the speed of light, the second very slow and "vibrating slowly back and forth, as if the universe itself were a single string or bubble", the third – antichronos – in reverse.

Rina from the excellent, free SF in SF reading series sez,

Eric Simons is the author of the wonderfully quirky "Darwin Slept Here" based on his own journey to see the people, places, and legends that interested Darwin, and what they're like now.

Here's Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the stupendous Red Mars books, in the Washington Post explaining why we shouldn't go to space — and why we should.

The creation of a cosmic diaspora is just one argument for putting humans in space — a bad one.

This week on Mur Lafferty's "I Should Be Writing" podcast, a smashing interview of science fiction great Kim Stanley Robinson, conducted by science fiction great James Patrick Kelly. Jim and Stan talk in depth about writing instruction and the Clarion workshops, with which they're both involved (as am I). — Read the rest

BLDG Blog has a great interview with science fiction giant Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the field's finest worldbuilders and intricate plotters — as well as an incredibly smart and passionate environmental activist.

I started writing about Earth's climate change in the Mars books.

SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson is interviewed in today's Wired News. Stan is a science fiction writer whose work manages to personalize the ethics of environmentalism in such a way as to make you feel them in your marrow. His magnificent opus, the Red Mars trilogy, tells the story of the internecine struggles among Mars colonists over the right of Mars to exist in natural beauty versus the human imperative to terraform it. — Read the rest

Kim Stanley Robinson has a brilliant interview with the Guardian today about his new eco-disaster novel, 50 Degrees Below, the sequel to his chilling, gripping 40 Signs of Rain.

Robinson is the brilliant author of the Mars trilogy, three epic, life-changing volumes on the terraforming of Mars — see my review of Red Mars and its sequels Blue Mars and Green Mars. — Read the rest

I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain. Robinson wrote Pacific Edge, the most inspiring utopian novel I've ever read (and one which never fails to reduce me to happy tears in the last chapter) and the Red Mars, Blue Mars and Green Mars trilogy — the most breathtakingly ambitious science fiction books I've ever read. — Read the rest

Kim Stanley Robinson, who is, on the one hand, the author of a brilliant, seminal series of novels about terraforming Mars has written a grand, overarching survey of the speculative literature of the Red Planet for the NYT, in the wake of the discovery of Mars's aquaeous history. — Read the rest

The Clarion Writer's Workshop is generally considered to be the leading training ground for science fiction and fantasy writers. Not that I'm biased — I attended the program myself in 2013, where I honed my chops under the mentorship of established writers like Cory Doctorow, who attended the program himself when he was younger. — Read the rest

Massive lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars could be prime real estate for future offworld habitats. "With heights that dwarf Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and 'skylights' as big as football fields," the formations could contain small cities protected from solar radiation, reports LiveScience. — Read the rest

Folio Society has produced a special illustrated edition of Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik, featuring several illustrations and a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson:

This video describes the creation of the edition, including hiding a secret in the slipcase:

Paolo Bacigalupi's (previously) A Full Life is a new short story in MIT Technology Review that traces the hard young life of Rue, whose family has to move and move again as climate disasters destroy the places they try to make their homes: the water for their ecologically sound farm dries up, then Austin becomes unlivable when heatwaves spike rolling blackouts, then Miami is washed off the map by a string of floods that overwhelm the levees built to "American standards" that were cooked by US oil lobbyists, and then life in New York comes to an end when a global financial crisis wipes out the last family member with any money — an uncle who was an investment banker who ends up losing all the money he made shorting Miami when the crash comes.