List of interviews
This is a list of interviews and guest appearances in conferences or events of Kim Stanley Robinson.
See also the list for Kim Stanley Robinson's non-fiction writings, which include articles he himself wrote.
For a shortlist of KSR's very best interviews, see Stan's Favorites!
Note: This page lists interviews that we are currently aware of. It is updated every time a new interview becomes available, but it is not a complete list. You can contribute if you know of an interview that is not on this list. Many thanks go to the members of the Demimonde forum, who contributed in creating this list.
This website exists since 2009. Many of the interviews since can be found linked from the various news article in the front page or from the archive of events.
2023
- Wayfinding with Kim Stanley Robinson. Brothers and Teachers, episode #14, Jan 23, 2023.
2022
- KIM STANLEY ROBINSON in conversation with Eric Rodenbeck. City Arts and Lectures. Dec 7, 2022.
- A Weird, Wonderful Conversation With Kim Stanley Robinson. The Ezra Klein Show. July 15, 2022 (audio)
2014
- Kim Stanley Robinson (a.k.a. The Ethnographer), The Skiffy and Fanty Show, episode #215, August 15, 2014 (audio)
- An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene, Nautilus, July 31, 2014
- The SciFri Book Club Introduces Dune, Science Friday, discussion with Annie Minoff, Sara Imari Walker, Ira Flatow, July 25, 2014
- Bookmark: Kim Stanley Robinson, TTBook, July 6, 2014
- (mp3)
- Top Ten, ArtForum, Summer 2014 (also in print)
- Humanity in the Solar System, Future Is Here Festival, Smithsonian Institution, May 17, 2014
- What can Mars teach us about politics on Earth?, DecodeDC podcast, May 15, 2014
- How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2014 (also in print)
- Imagining Possible Worlds, panel discussion with David Krakauer, Monique Allewaert and Steve Paulson, April 9, 2014
- Science Fiction and the Realism of Our Time, April 2014
- The Future: From Medicine and Synthetic Biology to Machine Intelligence, panel with Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Esther Dyson, Eric Horvitz, George Poste and Randolph Nesse, Origins Project at ASU, April 5, 2014 (Q&A also available)
- Still, I'm Reluctant to Call This Pessimism, Afterword, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, April 1, 2014 (in print)
- Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, SF Mag, March 18, 2014 (Hungarian site, but in English)
- also translated into Hungarian as Interjú Kim Stanley Robinsonnal, a Nebula-díjas 2312 című SF-regény írójával
- Author Spotlight: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lightspeed Magazine #46, March 2014 (eBook only)
- Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live Well on an Altered Planet with Ursula K. Le Guin, February 15, 2014
- The worlds of the science fiction writer, The West Australian, January 3, 2014
- Planet of the Future, Boom: A Journal of California, Winter 2013 (also in print)
- also published as The True Literature of California Is Science at Gizmodo, January 28, 2014
2013
- The Secret of Writing Great Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, December 11, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson reading with Andy Stewart, November 7, 2013 (KSR appears at about 23:00)
- How it helps me, Shambhala Sun, November 2013 (also in print) [offline]
- also available at Lion's Roar
- Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest book is an Ice Age tale, The Davis Enterprise, October 29, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation with McKenzie Wark, October 21, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson: The future is now, North Adams Transcript, October 18, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Capital Public Radio, October 17, 2013
- Science Fiction & Environmental Writing, panel discussion with Dana Gioia, Ursula Heise at the Tales from Two Cities conference, October 5, 2013
- Roaming Mars with a Writer, September 30, 2013
- PDF December 2013
- in French | in Spanish | in Chinese | in Arabic | in Persian | in Portuguese
- Focus, September 27, 2013
- Interview at Hour of the Wolf radio, September 25, 2013
- Interview with Award-Winning Author Kim Stanley Robinson, Amazing Stories, September 25, 2013
- FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson, Shaman, FDL Book Salon, September 22, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson discusses his latest novel "Shaman", Omnivoracious, September 22, 2013
- The Longevity of Human Civilization: Will We Survive Our World-Changing Technologies?, panel discussions at The John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, September 12, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson, "Shaman", Authors at Google, September 9, 2013
- Q&A: Kim Stanley Robinson, Library Journal, September 5, 2013
- The Real Science of Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Shaman', LiveScience, September 2, 2013
- A Functional Form Has Its Own Beauty: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 1, 2013
- Looking 32,000 Years into the Past: Q&A With Author Kim Stanley Robinson, LiveScience, August 30, 2013
- In The Studio - Kim Stanley Robinson, Davis Media Access, August 28, 2013
- Other worlds are possible: science fiction authors roundtable, discussion with Gwyneth Jones, Marge Piercy and Ken MacLeod, 'Red Pepper', August 28, 2013
- Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Goodreads, August 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson: Making Worlds, Locus, August 2013 (in print, excerpts available online)
- Kim Stanley Robinson: “Las estrellas están demasiado lejos”, El Cultural, July 19, 2013 (in Spanish)
- Kim Stanley Robinson on his new novel, Shaman, Orbit Books, June 26, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson: utopia and how to get there, City Atlas, June 13, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson in Conversation with John Crowley, MoMA PS1, June 9, 2013
- What is the Future for?, MoMA PS1, June 9, 2013
- Back to the Prehistoric Past for a Greener Future, A Far Out Fantastic Site, June 2, 2013
- Interviu cu Kim Stanley Robinson, Colecţia de Povestiri Ştiinţifico-Fantastice (CPSF) Anticipația No. 7, May 2013 (in Romanian) (in print)
- Paradise... Lost?, panel discussion with Marina Benjamin, Alex Callinicos and Ian Johnson from the HowTheLightGetsIn festival, May 27, 2013
- Stranger Than Fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson, SlateRadio, May 27, 2013
- UC San Diego Opens Center Devoted To Studying Imagination, KPBS, May 22, 2013
- Sword & Laser #129, May 21, 2013
- The Literary Imagination with Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson, UCTV, May 14, 2013
- The Literary Imagination: Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson on the influence of Philip K. Dick, UCTV, May 14, 2013
- Whole Earth: Sci-fi authors look for hope, Davis Enterprise, May 12, 2013
- White Fungus Issue 13 release event, May 4, 2013
- What gives pleasure?, Bull Spec #8+9, Spring 2013 (in print, preview online)
- State of the World 2013 Launch and Symposium, Worldwatch Institute, April 16, 2013
- Kim Stanley Robinson - 2312 Reading & Book Signing, University of Arizona Convergences Capstone, April 5, 2013
- The Infinite Space Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Odyssey #24, February 2013 (subscribers only)
- Living in a Sci-fi World: Author Kim Stanley Robinson , mendelspod.com, January 18, 2013
- Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves, io9.com, January 18, 2013
2012
- "Science’s Consciousness": An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Configurations, Volume 20, Number 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed by Adam Ford at Humanity+ (December 2012)
- Science as a Utopian Project, presentation at Humanity+ (December 2012)
- Panel - Utopia - Science Fiction & Fact, Humanity+ conference, with Max More, PJ Manney, and James Hughes
- Kim Stanley Robinson on 2312, Printsasia (November 2012)
- Generations (The SFX Summer Of SF Reading), with Alastair Reynolds and Jaine Fenn, SFX (in print) (October 2012)
- After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California, Sunday feature, BBC Radio 3, September 30, 2012
- The Novelist's Path, Shambhala Sun, September 2012 (also in print)
- FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312, Firedoglake (August 25, 2012)
- Mars Journal, Air & Space (August 2012) (also in print)
- The Surprising Novel That Got Kim Stanley Robinson Interested in Science Fiction, What Was It?, (July 13, 2012)
- In Search of a Plausible Utopia, Structo #8, July 2012 (in print)
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Guide to Building Future History, SFX (in print) (July 2012)
- Our Summer Must-Read Book List, Plus Kim Stanley Robinson Tells All We Come form the Future, (June 22, 2012)
- Live Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson at Capitola Book Café, June 16, 2012 The Agony Column (June 21, 2012)
- Authors@Google, (June 18, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson interview – the long version New Zealand Listener (June 18, 2012)
- Abridged version in the print issue (June 23, 2012)
- The Climate Changed World of 2312 With Kim Stanley Robinson, The Huffington Post, (June 13, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson Sees Humans Colonizing the Solar System in 2312, wired.com, (June 13, 2012)
- Remembering Ray Bradbury, The Takeaway (June 7, 2012)
- An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, SF Site (June 2012)
- Author Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Far Beyond Reality (May 31, 2012)
- Author Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us to 2312 Planetary Radio (May 28, 2012)
- The Big Idea: Kim Stanley Robinson (May 22, 2012)
- Terraforming the Solar System: Q&A With Author Kim Stanley Robinson, space.com (May 18, 2012)
- Kim Stanley Robinson talks 2312 and saving the planet, SciFiNow (May 11, 2012)
- Sci-Fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson Inhabits Space in 2312, Storyboard Podcast, Wired.com (May 7, 2012)
- Author Spotlight: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lightspeed Magazine (April 2012)
- "The Future Is Fun: PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson", Publisher's Weekly (in print) (March 5, 2012)
- PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson, Cont. Genreville, Publisher's Weekly (March 5, 2012)
- Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion, a panel discussion with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, and Joan Slonczewski. Strange Horizons, (February 27, 2012)
2011
- Kim Stanley Robinson is with the bears in new anthology, KPCC radio (December 19, 2011)
- Valuing the Earth and Future Generations: Imagining Post-Capitalism (November 16, 2011)
- Pacific Overture, Los Angeles Review of Books (September 16, 2011)
- Reuploaded here (January 9, 2012)
- The Coode Street Podcast, #74, with Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe (August 2011)
- Davis author Kim Stanley Robinson focuses on science, the environment, and the future, The Davis Enterprise (July 7, 2011)
- Fantastische Geschichten, Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst #206, pp.20-23 (in German) (June 2011)
- Agony Column Live Preview (May 31, 2011)
- Off The Shelf The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia) (April 19, 2011)
- Bruce Initiative 2011 Rethinking Capitalism Conference (April 7-9, 2011)
- Telling the story of 2008: Realistic, Utopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of What Could Have Happened (Keynote Panel) (April 7, 2011)
- also at Vimeo
- Keynote Panel Discussion (April 7, 2011)
- Round Table Discussion: Eschatology, Visualization and Scenario Planning (April 8, 2011)
- Telling the story of 2008: Realistic, Utopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of What Could Have Happened (Keynote Panel) (April 7, 2011)
2010
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Author of “The Lunatics” (Dec 1, 2010)
- Portions subsequently republished at tor.com as part of Dystopia Week: 1, 2
- Sharing the Adventure with the Public: The Value and Excitement of "Grand Questions" of Space Science and Exploration -- Session 6: “What could the future hold for humans in space?” video (November 9, 2010)
- CounterPULSE, Outspoken Authors panel - video (with Terry Bisson, Gary Phillips) (October 13, 2010)
- Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Q&A Part 1 + extract | Q&A Part 2
- Polygraph, #22: Science, Justice, Science Fiction: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson (September 2010)
- Kim Stanley Robinson – Author Interview, The Australian Literature Review, September 13, 2010
- Aussiecon4: The Bioethics of Terraforming (panel with David D. Levine, James Benford) (September 6, 2010)
- Aussiecon4: Presenting the Hugo Award for Best Novel to China Miéville (September 5, 2010)
- [ Video] (excerpt, no sound)
- Aussiecon4: Guest of Honour speech (September 4, 2010)
- Aussiecon4: Write What You Know! (panel with Jack Dann, Chris Lawson, Kaaron Warren) (September 3, 2010)
- Video (excerpt)
- The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia)(Aug 30, 2010)
- Kim Stanley Robinson In Conversation - Big Ideas, Melbourne Writers Festival (Australia) (August 29, 2010)
- Video, with chapters
- Can Science Fiction Motivate Us to Save the Environment? (Video excerpt)
- Video
- Audio
- The Genesis of "In Pierson's Orchestra" in Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Aug 2010)
- SignOnSanDiego: Sci-fi icon named UC San Diego grad speaker (June 9, 2010)
- also as Writer sees busy world ahead for graduates (June 14, 2010)
- UCSD Calit2: Galileo Between Science, Science Studies and Science Fiction (May 6, 2010)
- ActuSF (April, 2010)
- The Los Angeles Times: Kim Stanley Robinson maps the future's gray areas (February 21, 2010)
- "Science, Religion and Ideology" at Duke University (January 29, 2010)
- Kim Stanley Robinson Goes To Jupiter, io9.com (January 28, 2010)
- The BookBanter Blog (January 23, 2010)
2009
- The Guardian: Kim Stanley Robinson: science fiction's realist (November 11, 2009)
- Moe's Books reading with Terry Bisson (October 22, 2009)
- SFinSF event with Eric Simons and Terry Bisson, by Agony Column (October 17, 2009)
- Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Den of Geek (August 30, 2009)
- Amazon.co.uk Product Description: Galileo's Dream (circa August 6, 2009)
- Climate Change and the Pursuit of Happiness - 2009 Public Affairs Conference, Missouri State University (April 21, 2009)
- Video (MSU)
- Video (YouTube)
- Transcript
- The Future and You (February 18, 2009)
- I Should Be Writing podcast (February 11, 2009)
- Second Life appearance chat transcript (January 17, 2009)
2008
- Scalable City reading and talk at gallery@calit2 (December 2, 2008)
- Video
- Exhibition Catalog (contains Excerpt from The Gold Coast)
- Down to Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson, Earth Magazine (in print) (September, 2008)
- Robust Utopias in Peacework Magazine #387 (July-August, 2008)
- SciFiDimensions (April 10, 2008)
- Audio (archive.org)
- Presentation of Documentary The Planet, part 4 on Link TV (March 2008)
- Permaculture & Regenerative Design News (March 7, 2008)
- Oregon State University: "Who Owns The Sky? - "The Future Is A Commons" (February 21, 2008)
- California Heat, KVIE public television (2008)
- Walden5 interviews via viddler.com (2008)
2007
- BLDGBLOG (December 19, 2007)
- Google and Climate Change, part of Google TechTalks (December 11, 2007)
- Video hosted at YouTube
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (September 5, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Wired.com (July 3, 2007)
- Fast Forward (July 2007)
- Kim Stanley Robinson on his next novel, The Galileans, UK SF Book News (June 9, 2007) (archive.org)
- Future in Review 2007 Conference (May 25, 2007)
- Futurist.com (May, 2007)
- Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson Saves Earth! Planetary Radio (April 23, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- The Sci Phi Show (April 16, 2007)
- Norwescon 30 Panel with Greg Bear and Gordon Van Gelder (April 8, 2007)
- IT Conversations (April 4, 2007)
- Science in the Capital, Interzone (in print) (April, 2007)
- Locus Mag: Kim Stanley Robinson: Chop Wood, Carry Water (in print) (April, 2007)
- Adventures in Scifi Publishing (March 8, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Science Fiction Weekly #513 - offline, accessible via archive.org (March 5, 2007)
- Fabricating a Future from Science Fiction, The UCSD Guardian - offline, accessible via archive.org (March 5, 2007)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (March 1, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- LabLit.com (February 4, 2007)
- Bantam Dell Podcast (February, 2007) (archive.org)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (January 1, 2007)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Writing Against Reality: Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville, Rjurik Davidson, Overland #188 (in print) (Spring 2007)
2006
- Liberation.fr interview on the occasion of the translation of Forty Signs Of Rain, in French (November 16, 2006) liberation.fr/culture/livre/217450.FR.php (link dead, not present in archive.org)
- Utopiales 2006 (Nantes, France): "Mars la rouge" - debate with Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Aldiss, Roland C. Wagner and Jean Demerliac [bad audio quality, french dub] (November 4, 2006)
- Yozone.fr interview during the Utopiales 2006, Nantes, France (November 3, 2006)
- Also: plug for Yozone.fr
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (November 1, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Printed Matter, (October 30, 2006)
- The Future and You Segment of a larger program. (October 1, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Exploring a Climate of Disaster, World Watch Magazine (Sept/Oct 2006)
- Chicago Tribune comments on reclassification of Pluto. (August 23, 2006)
- Using the Arts to Galvanize the Public on Global Warming, a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress (April 20, 2006)
- Gary Braasch (video)
- Judith Helfand (video)
- Nicole St. Clair (video)
- Kim Stanley Robinson (video)
- Panel Q&A (video)
- transcript
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (March 6 & 13, 2006)
- Fast Forward (February 2006)
- El diluvio que viene, Página/12 (Argentina, in Spanish) (January 22, 2006)
- Confessions of a Crap Artist A program on Philip K. Dick by Ken Hollings originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (January 16, 2006) (mp3)
- Chico News and Review (January 12, 2006)
- IT Conversations (January 10, 2006)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
2005
- Transcript of Q&A at a book reading (November 15, 2005)
- Mr. Freeze, SFX, (in print) (November 2005)
- Vida inteligente más allá del capitalismo (Spain, in Spanish) (November 2005)
- New Scientist Requires subscription. (October 8, 2005)
- Guardian Unlimited (September 14, 2005)
- Strange Horizons (August 15, 2005)
- Q&A with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geotimes (in print) (June 2005)
- Eye on Books (2005)
- Audio direct link.
2004
- Davis Enterprise (October 18, 2004)
- Locus Multi-author panel. (September 10, 2004)
- Hour of the Wolf / Hour 25 (August 5, 2004)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- Globe and Mail (July 13, 2004) (archive.org)
- San Diego Union-Tribune (July 4, 2004)
- Science Fiction Studies (July, 2004)
- Fast Forward (July 2004)
- Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) (June 14, 2004)
- Transforming Mars, a panel discussion with KSR, Greg Bear, David Grinspoon, James Kasting, Christopher McKay, Lisa Pratt, John Rummel and Donna Shirley, held during AbSciCon 2004 (March 30, 2004)(transcript divided into parts on NASA's Astrobiology Magazine)
- Sci-Fi Writer Happy with Mars Results, All Things Considered, NPR audio. (January 4, 2004)
- Eye on Books (2004)
- Audio direct link.
2003
- S'intéresser à Mars est un signe de bonne santé, Libération.fr (December 19, 2003) (in French) (courtesy archive.org)
- Also excerpted at SciFi-Universe.com
- Kim Stanley Robinson (entrevista), Valis #13 (in print) (Spain) (Winter 2003)
- Science Fiction Weekly #351 - offline, accessible via archive.org (conducted November, 2003; posted online January 12, 2004)
- Translated into Spanish in Velero 25 (Peru) (May 2005)
- A Martian Birthday Party for Ray Bradbury, (August 25, 2003)
- audio (Stan appears 10:35 to 17:30)
- hablamos con… Stanley Robinson Interviú (Spain, in Spanish) (April 4, 2003) (courtesy archive.org)
- Masters of Science Fiction, Planetary Radio (March 31, 2003)
- Audio Link (MP3)
2002
- UCTV: UCSD Alumni Science Fiction Authors multi-author panel. (July 9, 2002)
- Video direct link
- January Magazine (July, 2002)
- Monthly Review (July, 2002)
- Who Would Live in a World Like This?, interview with Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Starburst #285 (in print) (May, 2002)
- NPR interview (April 14, 2002)
- Audio direct link.
- Making history without Europe, Sunday Business Post, Cork, Ireland (March 15, 2002) (link dead, no longer archived)
- The Zone (March, 2002)
- The Spin of a Coin, An Anthology of Souls, Interzone #177 (in print) (March, 2002)
- BookSense (February, 2002)
- SciFi.com chat transcript (February, 2002) (archive.org)
- SciFi Wire (February, 2002) (archive.org)
- Locus excerpts from print magazine. (January, 2002)
- Borders (offline; accessible at Archive.org) (2002)
- Axes of Evil, Albedo One #25 (archive.org) (2002)
2001
- Like Nothing Else the World Has Seen, New Mars (July, 2001) (archive.org)
- Hour of the Wolf / Hour 25 (June 15, 2001)
- Audio direct link (MP3)
- This Week In Science (audio) (October? 2001)
- Like a Japanese Paper Flower in Water: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Writing on the Edge (in print) (Fall/Winter 2001)
2000
- Tomorrow Never Knows, Yahoo! Internet Life (in print) (December, 2000)
- UCTV: UCSD Guestbook (July 11, 2000)
- also available on YouTube
- Space.com (June 26, 2000) (courtesy of archive.org)
- UCSD Regents Lecture, UCSD (Contains a reading of the short story "UCSD and Permaculture") (April 4, 2000)
- TheOneRing.net chat transcript. (January 19, 2000)
1999
- Infinity Plus: Wilderness, Utopia, History: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (October, 1999)
- also translated into French as Nature, Utopie et Histoire, Galaxies n° 15 (Dec 1999)
- Mars Millennium Project (August 26, 1999)
- HarperCollins (1999) (courtesy of archive.org)
- From Mars to Antarctica Amazon.com (1999) (courtesy archive.org)
- Also on amazon.co.uk
- Resonance Publications (circa June 1999)
- A Farewell to Mars, Dreamwatch, (April 1999) (in print)
- Szenarien der Zukunft sind wie Gedankenexperimente in der Physik: Ein Gespräch mit Kim Stanley Robinson, from Das Science Fiction Jahr 2000 (conducted March 1999, in print June 2000) (in German)
- Scifi.com online chat with Kim Stanley Robinson, Geoffrey A. Landis & Gardner Dozois - transcript offline, accessible via archive.org (February 9, 1999)
1998
- Earth's Final Frontier -- Sci-Fi Writer Kim Stanley Robinson Sets Genre-Defying Latest Book In The Alien Wilderness Of Antarctica, The Seattle Times (July 1998)
- Kim Stanley Robinson: Götterdämmerung on Ice, Publisher's Weekly (June 22, 1998)
- Also collected in the anthology Writing for Your Life #4, Pushcart Press (published in 2000)
- Online chat, Event Horizon - transcript offline, accessible via archive.org (October 1, 1998)
- Interview, The New York Review of Science Fiction (in print) (May 1998)
- Space: A New Understanding The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) (in print) (May 2, 1998)
- "Utopian Antarctica", Antarctica 2010: A notebook : Proceedings of the Antarctic Futures Workshop, 28-30 April 1998 (courtesy of archive.org, also in print)
- Frozen Frontier, Davis Enterprise (in print) (March 29, 1998)
1997
- Printed Matter (November 2, 1997)
- Interview at Hugo Awards (September, 1997)
- Video direct link
- Antarctica and Other Alien Landscapes, Locus (in print) (September 1997)
- Locus Excerpts from print magazine. (September, 1997)
- Ice Cool Science - An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson HarperCollins Australia (September, 1997)
- HarperCollins UK version (courtesy archive.org)
- Mars Mania Delights Author, Telegram & Gazette, Worcester, Massachusetts (in print) (July 14, 1997)
- Simply Irresistible, transcript from panel discussion on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (aired July 14, 1997)
- ReaderCon 9 interview by Blaine Atkins for SF TV show Infinite Possibilities (July 13, 1997) [available on YouTube]
- ReaderCon 9 Interview report of interview from attendee (July 13, 1997)
- Kim Stanley Robinson: The Man from Mars, HarperCollins Voyager website (April, 1997) (courtesy archive.org)
1996
- Red Scout, Green Scout, Sci-Fi Universe (in print) (December 1996)
- The Mars Trilogy: An interview, Foundation #68 (in print) (Autumn 1996)
- "Red Prophet, Green Man, Blue Adept", by Kev McVeigh, Vector #189: 3-5 (in print) (September/October 1996)
- Life? It's Just an Old Martian Band Tune The New York Daily News (in print) (Aug 8, 1996); also later in a slightly expanded version, Writers See Red Dawn Vindicated: Authors Say Sci-Fie on Those Who Downplayed Mars (Aug 12, 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson : Le plaisir d'écrire..., Ozone #3 (in print) (in French) (August 1996)
- Science Fiction Weekly #23 - offline, accessible via archive.org (June, 1996)
- SFX #14, (July 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Edge Magazine (May 1996)
- Mars on Earth, Locus (in print) (March, 1996)
- From the Shores of California to the Sands of Mars, Pirate Writings #9 (in print) (1996)
- Printed Matter (January, 21, 1996)
- Interview by Andrew Thomas, The Lakes Leader weekly newspaper (print) (1996) [mentioned here]
1995
- Mars in 3 Colors, ConNotations (Winter 1995)
1994
- Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology, (portion of chapter 15) (in print) (December 1994; paperback May 1997)
- Footprints on the Sands of Mars: Science Fiction Writers Explore the Red Planet, The World & I (April 1994)
- Revised and reprinted in The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media (October 2011)
- Reality Break: A Talk show of Fantastic Literature (transcript) (March 3, 1994)
- A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, by Bud Foote, Science Fiction Studies #62 (Vol. 21, No. 1), pp. 51-60 (in print) (March 1994)
1993
- "The Red Prophet: Kim Stanley Robinson, an Interview", by Kev McVeigh, Vector #176: 5-8 (in print) (December 1993/January 1994)
- available at Performative Utterance, courtesy of Kev McVeigh
- Je vais sur Mars, Yellow Submarine #104 (article, in French) (in print) (October, 1993)
- The Man from Utopia, Territories: The Slipstream Journal #3 (in print) (Summer 1993)
- An Earth-Man with a Mission, Eidolon #13 (in print) (July, 1993)
- Accessible online at eidolon.net
- Science Fiction Studies (conducted June 19, 1993; first published March, 1994)
- The Colors of Mars, Starlog #191, June 1993 (in print)
- Ecology, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: April 22, 1993) (KSR appears at 8:25-9:34, 11:13-13:00)
- Green Light for Red Planet Blues, Interzone #70 (in print) (April, 1993)
- reprinted as Kim Stanley Robinson Says Mars Is Making Eyes at Him, Wordsmiths of Wonder (in print) (October, 1993)
- Utopia, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: March 18, 1993)
- Martian Chronicles: Kim Stanley Robinson Interviewed, Critical Wave #29 (in print) (February, 1993)
1992
- Advice, episode of Prisoners Of Gravity (video) (Original airdate: April 16, 1992)
- Mars, episode of Prisoners Of Gravity (tv) (Original airdate: March 19, 1992)
- Interview, Strange Plasma #5 (in print) (1992)
1991
- Alternate Histories, episode of Prisoners of Gravity (tv) (Original airdate: October 10, 1991)
- Interview, Tales of the Unanticipated (in print) (Spring/Summer/Fall 1991)
- Future is Name of Author's Game The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (in print) (June 21, 1991)
- A childhood with no end; Author draws on youth for novel of the future The Orange County Register (in print) (Jan 19, 1991)
1989
- Entrevue : Kim Stanley Robinson, Solaris #85 (in print) (in French) (July 1989)
- "Robinson on the Gulf Coast: Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson at Worldcon", Michael Sumbera, Glen Cox & Dwight Brown, Nova Express (in print) (Spring 1989)
1988
- Me in a mirror, Proxima spécial #4 (article, in French as L'homme dans le miroir) (in print) (November, 1988)
- Entrevue avec Kim Stanley Robinson, Samizdat #14 (in print) (in French) (October 1988)
- Future shock in OC; Former resident writes scary 21st-century tale The Orange County Register (in print) (Mar 27, 1988)
- Future Shock The Washington Post (in print) (Feb 28, 1988)
1987
- Entretien : K.S. Robinson, Les Lames vorpales #11 (in print) (in French) (August 1987)
1986
- Libération (in print) (in French) (September 21, 1986)
- Entretien avec Kim Stanley Robinson, Univers 1986, in Science-Fiction #2012 (in print) (in French) (May 1986)
Related
- Rediscovered Treasure: Mars trilogy, interview with HarperCollins/Voyager publisher Jane Johnson (May 12, 2010)
- Article by John Clute for Capclave 2006 (October 16, 2006)
External links
- Kim Stanley Robinson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database