See also a List of interviews with Robinson.

2016

• Introduction to Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, Arizona State University, 2016 (online)

2015

• Introduction to Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Rosarium Publishing, August 2015

2014

• The Female Man by Joanna Russ, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, July 2014
• Kim Stanley Robinson on Isaac Asimov's 1964 Predictions, SciFiNow, May 20, 2014
• Introduction to Quintessence: Three Visions, Omega Institute, April 2014 (in print)
• When Modernism Met Science Fiction: Three New Wave Classics, NPR, January 5, 2014

2013

• Guest Blogger: Kim Stanley Robinson, author of "Shaman", Kindle Post, September 11, 2013
• The Map Is Not the Territory, slate.com, September 5, 2013
• Is it too late? The long view offers reason to hope, Sacramento Bee (June 23, 2013)
• Is It Too Late?, State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, (April 2013)
• A Tribute to Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia: Studies in a Literary Genre, Ralahine Utopian Studies #10 (March 2013)

2012

• Shedding Skins, Arc 1.4 (December 2012)
• Earth: Under Repair, Forever, onEarth, (December 3, 2012)
• The Many Cosmos Of Marina, Muse #31, (Fall 2012)
• Introduction to Glimmering, Elizabeth Hand (July 2012)
• Red Plenty is a Novel, a review of Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty (May 29, 2012)
• Introduction to In the Sierra: Mountain Writings of Kenneth Rexroth (April 2012)

2011

• Impressions on Rethinking Capitalism, Rethinking Capitalism Newsletter #2
• Remarks on Utopia in the Age of Climate Change, Arena Journal, (November 2011)
• The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction : The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, The Guardian (May 14, 2011)
• Martian Musings and the Miraculous Conjunction in Visions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science, (February 2011)

2010

• Remembering Ralph M. Vicinanza Locus (in print) (Nov 2010)
• Brilliant SF Books That Got Away: Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland, New Scientist (Oct 23, 2010)
• Essay for 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (published October 21, 2010; written ca. October 2009)
• 25 Years of Spectra: 40 Signs Of Rain (also including thoughts by Anne Groell, Senior Editor, Spectra) (July 2, 2010)
• 25 Years of Spectra: Red Mars (June 17, 2010)
• Introduction to Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (June, 2010)
• Introduction to The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (June, 2010)
  • Excerpt
• "Galileo's Dream -- 400 Years Later", article, Suvudu (January 11, 2010)
• "Kim Stanley Robinson on Sustainability", reaction for Understanding Sustainability (?, 2010)

2009

• "Space travel to save the environment makes sense in this time of climate change", article (November 14, 2009)
• Introduction to Mythbreakers and Lawbreakers, AK Press (October, 2009)
• "Science fiction: The Stories of Now", article, New Scientist (September 17, 2009)
• "Return to the Heavens, for the Sake of the Earth", article, The Washington Post (July 19, 2009)
• Introduction to The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (July 2009)
  • reprinted in The New York Review of Science Fiction #300, August 2013
• "My 10 Favorite Mars Novels", article, IEEE Spectrum (June, 2009)
• "Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme", article, What Matters, McKinsey Publishing (February 22, 2009)

2008

• Is science fiction dying? (preview only) New Scientist (Nov 15, 2008)

2007

• Kistenpass, autobiographical story, Flurb #4 (Fall-Winter 2007)
• Introduction to Promised Land, Jack Dann (March 2007)

2006

• Introduction to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne (April 25, 2006)
• Charles Sheffield and The Web between the Worlds in LiftPort -- The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone (April 2006)
  • Translated into Spanish as La telaraña entre los mundos, Velero 25 (Peru) (July 2008)
• Foreword to Saturn: A New View, Laura Lovett, Joan Horvath and Jeff Cuzzi
  • Also in French

2005

• On The Shelf: Climate Change Picks from Kim Stanley Robinson Geotimes (June 2005)
• Host Cities Battle University Expansion The Berkeley Daily Planet (April 29, 2005)
• City of Davis Should Take on the University Over Its Growth Plans, The Davis Enterprise (in print) (April 17, 2005)

2004

• Taming the Red Planet, Wired (Dec 2004)
• I Started with Huck Finn, Mark Twain Studies, Vol. 1 (Oct 2004)
• A Red Planet Forever in the Orbit of Science and Dreams, The New York Times (Mar 13, 2004)

2003

• Once upon a time in the future, article for Green Focus (Summer, 2003)
• Introduction to George Orwell's Animal Farm, Easton Press (2003)

2002

• Introduction to the Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 (also editor)

2001

• Introduction to The Storm, in Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois
• Introduction to Ghosts, Spirits, Computers, and World Machines, Gene O'Neill
• Preface to The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

2000

• Foreword to The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick

1999

• "Alive and Well: Messages from the Edge (Almost) of the Millennium", article, Nebula Awards 33
• "Why We Should Go to Mars", Newsweek (in print) (Dec 6, 1999)
• Last Words: What New Invention Has Done the Most Good? The Sierra Club Magazine (September/October 1999)

1998

• "The Green Space Project", The Planetary Report (in print) (May/June 1998)

1997

• A Stark Landscape's Song, The New York Times (July 12, 1997)

1996

• "The Psychic Landscape", article, Paragons
• "A Colony in the Sky", Newsweek (also in print) (Sept 23, 1996)
• "Michael Swanwick", article, Disclave 1996 Souvenir Booklet (May 1996) (in print)

1995

• "Terry Bisson is a Man of Strong Opinions", article for the 21st Annual World Fantasy Convention
• "Pentalude: Science Fiction as Fantasy", in Imaginative Futures: Proceedings of the 1993 Science Fiction Research Association Conference, June 17-19, 1993, Reno, Nevada

1994

• Introduction, Further Reading and Endnotes to Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (also editor)

1992

• "I Go to Mars", article, Interzone (September 1992)

1991

• Lötschepass, essay, Science Fiction Eye #8 (Winter 1991)
• Introduction ("The Man in the Mirror") to A Checklist of Kim Stanley Robinson, Ultramarine Press (in print) (1991)

1989

• "A Shepard Walkabout", article for the Disclave 1989 convention
  • also in Quantum (Fall 1990/Winter 1991)
• "Kim Stanley Robinson: A Bibliography", bibliography, Nova Express #3, Spring 1989

1988

• "An Afterword to Philip K. Dick's VALIS", Thrust #31, Fall 1988
  • Available at PhilipKDickFans.com
• "Cyberpunk Cake", article for the Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium, Mississippi Review #47/48

1987

• "Whose "Failure of Scholarship?"", letter, Science Stories #41
  • also in On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies (1992)

• Notes for An Essay on Cecelia Holland, Foundation #40 (Summer 1987)

1986

• Introduction to The Planet On The Table

1984

• The Novels Of Philip K. Dick, revised and expanded, published by UMI Research Press as part of the Studies in Speculative Fiction series

1982

• The Novels Of Philip K. Dick, PhD thesis at UCSD

External links

• The Locus Index to Science Fiction
• Kim Stanley Robinson on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database