Kim Stanley Robinson Books in Order

Part memoir, part trail guide, this nonfiction book braids Robinson's decades of backpacking in California's Sierra Nevada with geology, history, and reflections on why time in high mountain country can reshape how we think about work, politics, and happiness.

Beginning with a deadly Indian heat wave, this near-future novel tracks a new UN agency based in Zurich and traumatized survivor Frank May as they pursue carbon coins, legal reforms, and sometimes violent resistance in a desperate attempt to stabilize the climate.

Set in 2047, this thriller follows quantum engineer Fred Fredericks and pregnant dissident Chan Qi as they flee across the Moon and China, caught between surveillance states, protest movements, and a power struggle over who will control lunar development.

In a half-submerged New York turned 'SuperVenice,' an ensemble cast of co-op residents in the old Met Life tower, from quants and traders to activists and cops, navigate flooded streets, financial crashes, and bold schemes to reclaim the city.

This multi-author anthology of climate fiction gathers sixteen stories set after dramatic sea-level rise, including a contribution by Robinson, exploring how people adapt, grieve, and improvise new cultures in cities and coastlines transformed into watery landscapes.

Presented as a future Supreme Court transcript, this short story imagines a lawyer arguing that corporations should no longer hold patents on basic biological processes, sketching a playful but pointed picture of a greener legal and economic order.

This single-volume revision of the Science in the Capital trilogy compresses and updates Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting into one continuous near-future climate saga focused on Washington, D.C., politics and global environmental repair.

A generation starship built as a spinning ring nears Tau Ceti after centuries in flight, but ecological systems are failing, and the ship's artificial intelligence gradually becomes a narrator, questioning whether interstellar colonization is possible without destroying its travelers.

This critical anthology, coedited by Robinson, collects essays and interviews that read science fiction through ecology, examining how stories imagine extinction, utopia, environmental justice, and new ways of living with damaged planets.

Set in Ice Age Europe, the novel follows Loon, a young orphan apprenticed to irascible shaman Thorn, as he survives a harsh wilderness initiation, learns the stories and rituals of his people, and helps his small band endure a changing world.

In 2312, artist and terrarium designer Swan Er Hong teams with diplomat Fitz Wahram and investigator Jean Genette after a catastrophic attack on Mercury's mobile city, uncovering a conspiracy that spans the colonized solar system and the fate of a warming Earth.

This alternate-history novelette imagines what happens when the Enola Gay crashes before Hiroshima and a replacement bombardier must decide whether to drop the atomic bomb, turning one pilot's conscience into a turning point for global nuclear politics.

Moving between seventeenth-century Italy and a utopian future society on Jupiter's moons, this novel follows Galileo as time travelers enlist him in their political struggles, weaving hard science, biography, and philosophical debates about memory, faith, and scientific change.

In the trilogy's conclusion, a new U.S. administration takes office after an election fought on climate, and Frank, Anna, Charlie, and their allies race to stabilize weather systems and remake institutions while personal lives, politics, and spirituality collide.

After Washington's flood, climatologist Frank Vanderwal chooses to stay at the National Science Foundation, experimenting with a quasi Stone Age lifestyle while helping design risky geoengineering schemes as a deep freeze grips the Northern Hemisphere.

Set in near-future Washington, D.C., the first Science in the Capital novel follows scientists Anna and Frank and policy aide Charlie as stalled politics meet abrupt climate shifts, culminating in catastrophic floods that force leaders to confront global warming.

This UK collection assembles fourteen key stories from earlier books, including the title's alternate Viking history, drowned-city tales, and Martian vignettes, offering a handy single volume of Robinson's short fiction about memory, exploration, and historical what-ifs.

In this sweeping alternate history, the Black Death wipes out nearly all of Europe, and the story instead follows reincarnating characters across centuries of Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Indigenous histories as they struggle toward more just and peaceful worlds.

This retrospective collection gathers more than twenty stories from across Robinson's career, including award-winners like The Blind Geometer and Black Air, showcasing his interest in ecology, politics, history, and the quiet dramas of ordinary people.

This companion volume to the Mars Trilogy collects stories, essays, and vignettes that fill in side adventures, alternate timelines, and folklore, offering extra perspectives on the colonists and landscapes readers first met in Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars.

Blending adventure and reportage, this novel follows field assistants, guides, and visiting politicians at McMurdo Station, using their treks across the ice to explore Antarctic history, science, tourism, and the fragile treaties that protect the continent from exploitation.

In the trilogy's finale, Mars is largely terraformed, Earth reels from climate disasters, and Martian factions must negotiate independence, immigration pressures, and the ethics of extreme longevity as they expand human settlement throughout the solar system.

Decades after the first landing, long-lived colonists and their children push terraforming forward, organize underground resistance to Earth's control, and fight over what kind of society Mars should become as the planet slowly turns from red to green.

Edited by Robinson, this anthology gathers utopian and cautionary tales of ecotopias, showcasing writers who imagine societies that use high technology to live lightly on Earth, or warn what happens when that experiment goes very wrong.

The first Mars Trilogy volume follows the First Hundred colonists as they build the initial settlements, debate whether to terraform the planet, and become entangled in revolutions and corporate power struggles that reshape both Mars and an ecologically stressed Earth.

A British collection that brings together the fantasy novella A Short, Sharp Shock, award-winning The Blind Geometer, and key stories from Remaking History, offering a compact tour through Robinson's early obsessions with poverty, politics, memory, and strange landscapes.

This collection of fifteen stories ranges from alternate histories and media satires to intimate portraits of climbers, workers, and activists, all circling Robinson's fascination with how people remember the twentieth century and try to change the course of events.

Set in a small Southern California town that has embraced green politics and cooperative living, the novel follows carpenter and new councilmember Kevin Clayborne as a development fight over the last wild hill tests friendships, ideals, and this fragile utopia.

A nameless man wakes on a strange shore with no memories and only a glimpse of a lost woman, then is forced to journey along a ribbon of land encircling an endless sea, through bizarre cultures and dangers, to try to find her again.

This linked set of Himalayan adventures follows trekking guides George and Freds, two American expatriates in Nepal whose encounters with a captured yeti, clandestine Everest climbs, hidden kingdoms, and bureaucratic absurdities turn mountaineering into a comic, gently satirical quest.

In an Orange County smothered in freeways, malls, and defense contractors, drifting poet Jim McPherson is pulled from parties and designer drugs into underground sabotage, forcing a collision between his ideals and his father's work in high-tech weapons.

One of the Escape from Kathmandu novellas, this story sends George, Freds, and a band of climbers on an illegal ascent of Mount Everest to keep a camera crew from exploiting a legendary discovery, mixing slapstick, spirituality, and thin-air danger.

This early story collection gathers eight of Robinson's best shorter works, from drowned future Venice and miners on Uranus to the Hiroshima alternate history The Lucky Strike and the Spanish Armada tale Black Air, showcasing his range in compact form.

A blind mathematician who sees through sound and touch is drawn into a dangerous scheme by new colleagues, and must rely on his geometric intuition and a fragile new friendship to uncover what they are really plotting.

In the thirty-third century, a solar system linked by a mysterious energy grid follows the Holywelkin Orchestra on a grand tour, as its new master, Johannes, finds his musical calling tangled up with cults, conspiracies, and control of humanity's power source.

In this earlier, stand-alone Mars story, veteran politician Roger Clayborne joins an expedition to climb Olympus Mons, where the physical ordeal and sweeping views force him to confront what Mars has gained and lost through centuries of terraforming.

In 2047, a small fishing village on the ruined California coast struggles to survive after a devastating nuclear attack, while young Hank Fletcher is drawn toward dangerous schemes to reconnect with the wider world and remake a broken America.

Robinson's doctoral study of Philip K. Dick surveys every major novel, tracing recurring themes, narrative experiments, and political anxieties, and helps readers see how Dick's strange futures reflected the cultural pressures of postwar America.

A mysterious Stonehenge-like circle of ice on Pluto, a buried diary from a lost Martian revolution, and a historian centuries later all intertwine, as three narrators try to untangle whether the monument marks alien contact, human mythmaking, or a deliberate hoax.

In this award-winning historical fantasy, orphan Manuel is pressed into service aboard a Spanish Armada galleon, where storms, visions, and the slow collapse of the fleet force him to question faith, fate, and what survival really means.