Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer, best known for the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). His fiction centres on ecology, economics and the role of scientists in solving collective problems, and includes the Three Californias trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, New York 2140 and The Ministry for the Future. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California, San Diego, where he wrote on Philip K. Dick, and has...