How Is It That The Greatest Living Science Fiction Writer Has Only 41 Followers on Medium?
This revelation has me scratching my head…
Until Wednesday night, I had no idea that Kim Stanley Robinson existed.
If it weren’t for a new friend Joel Dinerstein whom I met in the most extraordinary circumstances a few days ago, I might have gone through life not having read or heard about Kim Stanley Robinson.
And that would have been profoundly tragic.
So who is Kim Stanley Robinson, I hear you ask?
An American writer who has written quite prolifically on Climate change and one who combines a well researched approach with a highly engaging style to story telling.
You will have read a plethora of articles from your favourites about the need to read widely to be a successful writer. Kim Stanley Robinson is living proof of this point.
There aren’t too many players here or anywhere else for that matter, who can fuse philosophy, finance, economics, history, politics and science into a highly readable work of fiction.
Such breadth of knowledge does not come from being around for thirty or forty years; it comes from spending a lifetime studying systems which affect the entirety of mankind in China, Japan, Afghanistan…