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Essays and Criticism
A collection of peer-reviewed and/or academic publications relating to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson (chronological list):

Moylan, Tom, ‘Utopia is when our lives matter’: Reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge, Penn State University Press, Utopian Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1995), pp. 1-24 [online]

Franko, Carol, Dialogical Twins: Post-Patriarchal Topography in Two Stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, SF-TH Inc, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Nov., 1995), pp. 305-322 [online]

Markley, Robert, Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-Economics in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Martian Trilogy, The Johns Hopkins University Press, MFS Modern Fiction Studies – Volume 43, Number 3, Fall 1997 [online]

Franko, Carol, Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars Trilogy, in A Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed, Wiley-Blackwell, August 2005 [online]

Burling, William J., et al., Kim Stanley Robinson maps the unimaginable: critical essays, edited by William J. Burling, McFarland & Co., 2009 [online] (Several articles were previously published independently) Contents:
- Pt. I Utopia and Alternative History
  - 1.Witness to Hard Times: Robinson’s Other Californias / Thomas P. Moylan
  - 2.”If I Find One Good City, I Will Spare the Man”: Realism and Utopia in the Mars Trilogy / Fredric Jameson
  - 3.Falling into History: Imagined Wests in the “Three Californias” and Mars Trilogy / Carl Abbott
  - 4.Remaking History: The Short Fiction / John Kessel
  - 5.The Martians: A Habitable Fabric of Possibilities / Nick Gevers
  - 6.Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt / Phillip E. Wegner
- Pt. II Theory and Politics
  - 7.The Density of Utopian Destiny in Red Mars / Carol Franko
  - 8.Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-Economics in the Mars Trilogy / Robert Markley
  - 9.Chromodynamics: Science and Colonialism in the Mars Trilogy / Elizabeth Leane
  - 10.The Theoretical Foundation of Utopian Radical Democracy in Blue Mars / William J. Burling
  - Contents note continued: 11.The Politics of the Network: The Science in the Capital Trilogy / Roger Luckhurst
  - 12.Living Thought: Genes, Genres and Utopia in the Science in the Capital Trilogy / Gib Prettyman
  - 13.”Structuralist Alchemy” in Red Mars / William J. White
- Pt. III Ecology and Nature
  - 14.Ecological Newspeak / Alan R. Slotkin
  - 15.Murray Bookchin on Mars! The Production of Nature in the Mars Trilogy / Shaun Huston
  - 16.The Mars Trilogy and the Leopoldian Land Ethic / Eric Otto
  - 17.Dead Penguins in Immigrant Pilchard Scandal: Telling Stories About “the Environment” in Antarctica / Sherryl Vint / Mark Bould
- Pt. IV Interview and Select Bibliography
  - 18.A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson / Irving F. “Bud” Foote
  - 19.A Select Secondary Bibliography / William J. Burling.
Pak, Chris, Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces, FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, No 10 (2010) [online]

Cho, K. Daniel, Tumults of Utopia: Repetition and Revolution in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Cultural Critique, Number 75, Spring 2010, pp. 65-81, doi:10.1353/cul.2010.0008 [online]

Johns-Putra, Adeline, Ecocriticism, Genre, and Climate Change: Reading the Utopian Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy, Ecocriticism and English Studies, Volume 91, 2010 – Issue 7, Pages 744-760, doi:10.1080/0013838X.2010.518043 [online]

Cho, K. Daniel, “When a Chance Came for Everything to Change”: Messianism and Wilderness in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Abrupt Climate Change Trilogy, Criticism, Volume 53, Number 1, Winter 2011, pp. 23-51, doi:10.1353/crt.2011.0006 [online]

Trexler, Adam, Johns‐Putra, Adeline, Climate change in literature and literary criticism, WIREs Climate Change 2011 Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 185–200, doi:10.1002/wcc.105 [online]

Pak, Chris, ‘All energy is borrowed’ – terraforming: a master motif for physical and cultural re(up)cycling in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Green Letters, Volume 18, 2014 – Issue 1, Pages 91-103, doi:10.1080/14688417.2014.890527 [online]

Pak, Chris, ‘The goal of Martian economics is not “sustainable development” but a sustainable prosperity for its entire biosphere’: science fiction and the sustainability debate, Green Letters, Volume 19, 2015 – Issue 1, Pages 36-49, doi:10.1080/14688417.2014.984316 [online]

Pak, Chris, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction, June 2016, Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies 55 [online] Relevant contents:
- 5: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
  - Gardens on Mars
  - “Stepping Back”
  - Visions Reflected Back to Earth
  - Closed Life-Support Systems, Soil and Cybernetics
  - Eco-Economics and the Landscape as Mirror
  - Science and Nature
  - On Martian Myths
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Bibliography
As of 2025, Kim Stanley Robinson has published 21novels, 8 short story collections, 4 novellas and 2 works of non-fiction.

Novels

Orange County trilogy

Main article
- The Wild Shore (1984)
- The Gold Coast (1988)
- Pacific Edge (1990)
Mars trilogy

Main article
- Red Mars (1992)
- Green Mars (1993)
- Blue Mars (1996)
- The Martians (companion volume) (1999)
Science In The Capital trilogy

Main article
- Forty Signs Of Rain (2004)
- Fifty Degrees Below (2005)
- Sixty Days And Counting (2007)
- Green Earth (compressed omnibus) (2015)
Non-series Novels
- Icehenge (1984)
- The Memory Of Whiteness (1985)
- Antarctica (1997)
- The Years Of Rice And Salt (2002)
- Galileo’s Dream (2009)
- 2312 (2012)
- Shaman (2013)
- Aurora (2015)
- New York 2140 (2017)
- Red Moon (2018)
- The Ministry for the Future (2020)
Novellas & Short Stories

List of short stories and novellas

Collections
- The Planet On The Table (1986)
- Escape From Kathmandu (1989)
- Remaking History (1991)
- Down And Out In The Year 2000 (1992)
- Remaking History And Other Stories (1994)
- The Martians (1999)
- Vinland The Dream And Other Stories (2002)
- The Best Of Kim Stanley Robinson (2010)
Single-story publications
- Green Mars (novella) (1988)
- The Blind Geometer (novella) (1989)
- A Short, Sharp Shock (novella) (1990)
- Black Air (short story) (1991)
- The Lucky Strike (novella) (2009)
Non-Fiction

List of non-fiction publications
- The Novels Of Philip K. Dick (1984)
- The High Sierra: A Love Story (2022)
Novels – Chronological list
- 1984 The Wild Shore
- 1984 Icehenge
- 1985 The Memory Of Whiteness
- 1988 The Gold Coast
- 1990 Pacific Edge
- 1992 Red Mars
- 1993 Green Mars
- 1996 Blue Mars
- 1997 Antarctica
- 2002 The Years Of Rice And Salt
- 2004 Forty Signs Of Rain
- 2005 Fifty Degrees Below
- 2007 Sixty Days And Counting
- 2009 Galileo’s Dream
- 2012 2312
- 2013 Shaman
- 2015 Aurora
- 2015 Green Earth
- 2017 New York 2140
- 2018 Red Moon
- 2020 The Ministry for the Future
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List of short stories and novellas

This is a list of the short stories, novellas and other fiction writings, including poems, published by Kim Stanley Robinson, in the order of their first publication. Many of these writings were published more than once, and most have been included in short story collection releases. For a list of non-fiction publications, see here.

Robinson mainly wrote short stories in the 1970s and 1980s, in the beginning of his career as a writer. He has now acknowledged that his more recent writing habits have drawn him away from the short story format in favor of novels, however he does not exclude a future effort to pick back writing in shorter prose.

The right columns of the following table indicate in which collections was the story published, usually after an initial publication in a magazine:

PT for The Planet On The Table (1986)
EK for Escape From Kathmandu (1989)
RH for Remaking History (1991)
DO for Down And Out In The Year 2000 (1992)
RO for Remaking History And Other Stories (1994)
M4 for The Martians (1999)
VD for Vinland The Dream And Other Stories (2002)
BO for The Best Of Kim Stanley Robinson (2010)

The following abbreviations were also used: F&SF for The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction and IASFM for Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.

Year	Name	First published	PT	EK	RH	DO	RO	M4	VD	BO
1976	Coming Back To Dixieland	Orbit 18	1				1		1
1976	In Pierson’s Orchestra	Orbit 18
1977	The Disguise	Orbit 19	1				1		1
1977	The Thing Itself	Clarion SF
1978	#4 (poem)	The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3
1980	On The North Pole Of Pluto	Orbit 21
1980	A Poem for Johannes (poem)	The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #4
1981	Venice Drowned	Universe 11	1				1		1	1
1982	To Leave A Mark	F&SF Nov-1982
1982	Exploring Fossil Canyon	Universe 12						1
1983	Black Air	F&SF Mar-1983	1				1		1	1
1983	Stone Eggs	Universe 13	1				1		1
1984	Sense and Science: Davis, March 1979 (poem)	Velocities #4
	The Lucky Strike	Universe 14	1				1		1	1
	Ridge Running	Universe 13	1				1		1	1
1985	Green Mars	IASFM Sep-1985						1
1985	Mercurial	Universe 15	1				1		1
1986	Down And Out In The Year 2000	IASFM Apr-1986			1	1	1
	Escape From Kathmandu	IASFM Sep-1986		1						1
	Our Town	Omni Nov-1986			1	1	1			1
	The Blind Geometer	Cheap Street				1				1
	A Transect	F&SF May-1986			1	1	1
1987	Rainbow Bridge	F&SF Aug-1987			1	1	1
	The Memorial	In the Field of Fire
	Mother Goddess Of The World	IASFM Oct-1987		1
1988	Remaking History	Other Edens II			1		1			1
	Glacier	IASFM Sep-1988			1	1	1			1
	The Lunatics	Terry’s Universe			1	1	1			1
	The Part Of Us That Loves	Das Grosse Weinachts-buch Der Phantasie			1		1
1989	Before I Wake	Interzone #27			1	1	1			1
	The True Nature Of Shangri-La	IASFM Dec-1989		1
	The Kingdom Underground			1
1990	The Translator	Universe 1			1	1	1			1
	A Short, Sharp Shock	IASFM Nov-1990				1
	Zürich	F&SF Mar-1990			1	1	1			1
1991	Muir On Shasta	Author’s Choice Monthly #20			1		1		1	1
	A Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions	Author’s Choice Monthly #20			1		1		1	1
	“A History Of The Twentieth Century, With Illustrations”	IASFM Apr-1991			1		1		1	1
	Vinland The Dream	IASFM Nov-1991			1		1		1	1
1994	A Martian Childhood	Asimov’s Feb-1994
1999	Michel In Antarctica							1
	The Archaea Plot							1
	The Way The Land Spoke To Us							1
	Maya And Desmond							1
	Four Teleological Trails							1
	Coyote Makes Trouble							1
	Michel In Provence							1
	Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars	IASFM Aug-1999						1		1
	Salt And Fresh							1
	The Constitution Of Mars							1
	Some Worknotes And Commentary On The Constitution, By Charlotte Dorsa Brevia							1
	Jackie On Zo							1
	Keeping The Flame							1
	Saving Noctis Dam							1
	Big Man In Love							1
	An Argument For The Deployment Of All Safe Terraforming Technologies							1
	Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies							1
	Odessa							1
	Sexual Dimorphism	IASFM June-1999						1		1
	Enough Is As Good As A Feast							1
	What Matters							1
	Coyote Remembers							1
	Sax Moments							1
	The Names Of The Canals							1
	The Soundtrack							1
	A Martian Romance							1
	If Wang Wei Lived On Mars And Other Poems							1
	Purple Mars							1
2000	How science saved the world: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?	Nature #6765
	Discovering Life	Collector’s Edition: Five Brand New Short Stories from Voyager Authors‎						1		1
	The Future Of Adventure	GORP.com
	UCSD and Permaculture	UCSD Perspectives, Summer 2000
2005	Prometheus Unbound, At Last	Nature #7052								1
2010	The Timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, 1942	The Best of KSR								1
2015	Oral Argument	Tor.com

Additional editions

Short stories included in other English-speaking editions, not found in the pages dedicated to individual stories.

Before They Were Giants, Paizo Publishing, August 2010 (contains In Pierson’s Orchestra)
Life on Mars: Tales from New Frontiers, Viking, April 2011 (contains Discovering Life)
Metamorphosis, Aqueduct Press, June 2015 (contains The Lunatics, Zürich and an interview)

Audio readings and adaptations

The Lucky Strike: Seeing Ear Theatre, 1997-2001 [available at Archive.org]
Mercurial: StarShipSofa, June 2010
A Short, Sharp Shock: Blackstone Audio, March 2012
Our Town: Lightspeed Magazine, April 2012
Discovering Life: StarShipSofa, April 2015
Mercurial: Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2016

External links

The Locus Index to Science Fiction
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
The Year’s Best Science Fiction (collections edited by Gardner Dozois & Terry Carr)

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List of non-fiction publications
This is a list of articles, essays, introductions and other non-fiction writings by Kim Stanley Robinson.
See also a List of interviews with Robinson, and the home page for links to more recent material.

Last update: 2016

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
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