Utopia and Utopianism in the Fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Andrew Rowcroft (University of Lincoln)

Ed. by Sean Seeger, University of Essex
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1984-2018

Places

United States (Location)

Genres and Modes

Science Fiction
Utopian / Dystopian

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Kim Stanley Robinson can be considered perhaps America’s greatest living science fiction author, his position secure and well-earned. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, he has already produced nine novels, including

The Years of Rice and Salt

(2002),

Forty Signs of Rain

(2004),

Fifty Degrees Below

(2005),

Sixty Days and Counting

(2007),

Galileo’s Dream

(2009),

2312

(2012),

Shaman

(2013),

Aurora

(2015), and

New York: 2140

(2017). Each novel has received numerous science fiction awards and honours, among them the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Robinson’s novels, short-stories, and non-fiction essays possesses various anti-capitalist commitments to contemporary social, political, and environmental issues, including planetary ecology,…

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Citation: Rowcroft, Andrew. "Utopia and Utopianism in the Fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 July 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19530, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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