Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awardsâa first for any book. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundationâs Antarctic Artists and Writersâ Program in 1995 and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008, he was named a âHero of the Environmentâ by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writersâ Workshop, and UC San Diegoâs Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages and won a dozen awards in five countries, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016, he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named âKimrobinson.â In 2017, he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. A prolific writer and speaker, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Nature, and Wired, among many others, and he has lectured at more than one hundred institutions over the last 25 years. His novel, The Ministry for the Future, was selected as one of Barack Obamaâs Favorite Books of 2020 and one of Bill Gatesâ â5 Great Books for the Summerâ in 2022. The New York Times named both The Ministry for the Future and Aurora as two of âThe Ten Best Books of the 21st Century.â His most recent book, The High Sierra: A Love Story is a non-fiction exploration of Robinsonâs years spent hiking and camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains, one of the most compelling places on Earth.