Kim Stanley Robinson is that rarest phenomenon of fiction, the keen stylist who understands at once hard science, global politics and the wide sweep of history. A Ph.D. in English and the most insightful critic-scholar of science-fiction giant Philip K. Dick, Robinson abandoned an academic career to write fiction. His non-sci-fi volumes have been varied and fascinating—from The Novels of P.K.… return to article
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