Kim Stanley Robinson is one of our greatest living science fiction writers, a personal favorite of mine, and someone I’ve been privileged to know as a friend for nearly a quarter century. His first books to grab my attention were the Mars Trilogy (Red/Green/Blue Mars). I still love those books, telling the adventurous story of humanity’s settlement of Mars a few decades in the future, and how the settlers formed a community and eventually an independent world, also embarking on a technological tour-de-force in terraforming the planet to make it into a lush and prosperous world. KSR still writes SciFi, but with a more mature understanding of humanity’s current place in space and time, and our solemn duty to heal the planet we are born into. He’s now one of the greatest writers of Climate Fiction, a related branch of SciFi that emphasizes the huge and essential project we all face in saving our home world.
In this nearly two-hour talk, we cover all of those topics and more. Stan, as he is known to friends, is a wonderful human being with a great heart and a prodigious mind. I invite you all to listen to what he has to say about humanity’s future here and in the cosmos, on Seldon Crisis, the podcast. I also welcome new listeners who may be interested in the main theme of the podcast, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, brought to life in a unique and vivid style.
Seldon Crisis Podcast: Future Visions with Kim Stanley Robinson