REIMAGINING CALIFORNIA WATERFOURTH ANNUAL MEETING Fourth annual gathering sponsored by UC ANR’s California Institute for Water Resources and the University of California Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative, UC Water. 24-26 October 2018 Sacramento, CA FUTURE CALIFORNIA IMAGINED KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY FUTURIST KIM STANLEY ROBINSON 26 October 2018 11AM Event site Event agenda Press release after the event

The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson In this talk, author Kim Stanley Robinson reminds us that the Anthropocene is a name in a periodizing scheme, or in more than one periodizing scheme. He suggests that, to understand it more fully, we need first to discuss periodization itself. Then, Robinson considers whether it […]

Learning From Le Guin The legacy of Ursula K Le Guin lives beyond the page
 in generations of writers who have learned from her. She used fantastic fiction to imagine ideals for the real world. Kim Stanley Robinson, her student 40 years ago and now a celebrated science fiction writer himself, reflects on Le Guin […]

SF in SF Sun. Jan. 20: Kim Stanley Robinson, Cecelia Holland, and Howard Hendrix Doors open 6:00pm Event begins 6:30pm At the American Bookbinders Museum Event site