Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinsonis an American writer of science fiction. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his Mars trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. Robinson's work has been labeled by The Atlantic as "the gold-standard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.