Abstract

In Kim Stanley Robinson, part of the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series published by the University of Illinois Press, Robert Markley ambitiously sets out to tell the story of Kim Stanley Robinson's oeuvre by offering a "mid-career report that traces the developing concerns in his fiction". The challenge of connecting the wide-ranging concerns of Robinson's fiction necessarily risks eliding or simplifying key elements of that story. Nonetheless, Markley is able to leverage Robinson's characteristic iteration over crucial narrative and critical themes throughout his oeuvre to articulate the trajectory of Robinson's concerns across three decades of writing, making this work an excellent introduction to a...