Kim Stanley Robinson is an American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. Robinson began publishing novels in 1984. His work has been described as "humanist science fiction" and "literary science fiction". Robinson himself has been a proud defender and advocate of science fiction as a genre, which he regards as one of the most powerful of all literary forms. Kim Stanley Robinson has become an important public thinker. He was named a “hero of the environment” by Time magazine and The New Yorker called him “one of the most important political writers working in America today.”Credit...