Refreshments will be served at a reception to follow the lecture. In the lecture, Robinson will read from “Sacred Space,” a piece of his climate trilogy, recently compressed into the 2015 volume Green Earth, and address the place of climate change in speculative fiction. He has been named, by publications ranging from The Atlantic to The New Yorker, one of the greatest science fiction writers living today. Robinson has won numerous awards for his prodigious work, including the Nebula Award for Red Mars (1992), and the Hugo Award for both Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996), the three books in his Mars Trilogy. Many of these writings explore themes of ecological sustainability, the relationship between nature and culture, and the civic role of scientists.
The waters have risen 50ft, submerging much of New York City. Dick, a work of criticism based on his dissertation, Robinson is the author of 4 novellas, 8 short story collections, and 17 novels. K im Stanley Robinson’s new novel is set a dozen decades hence, in a world where climate change has bitten deep. in literature at the University of California San Diego. Water Futures and Fictions: A Lecture on Climate Change and Speculative FictionĪs part of the 2015-2016 Environmental Humanities Project seminar on Drougt, acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will deliver a lecture entitled "Water Futures and Fictions,” addressing themes of climate change and water in California.
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